The Church and Child Sexual Abuse

The horror of child sexual abuse by priests and religious has provoked a storm of reaction over the last few years. The official church response has been widely criticized as being self-serving and legalistic, and at least some elements of the media have left themselves open to accusations of sensationalizing and of scapegoating. The book seeks to offer some insights into the nature of the problem, its causes and its treatments, and reviews what the Christian response to this problem ideally might be in the light of gospel values.