Church Members: Church and Abuse

church members: He asked forgiveness for the failings of those clergy who betrayed the trust invested in them to protect young people, according to The Japan Times. It is my heartfelt prayer that together we as a family of faith may be healed, Dolan added. The release, from the nation's second-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, follows more than 120 such disclosures from other dioceses around the country as the church reckons with demands for transparency about sex abuse by clergy. ; In a letter to church members, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said he realizes the shame that has come upon our church due to the sexual abuse of minors. Church abuse watchdogs and lawyers for abuse accusers said the release of the list was a positive step, but some of them saw it as incomplete. Nor does it list priests who were ordained elsewhere and later served in New York. It doesn't include accused members of religious orders who worked in the archdiocese's churches and schools, though some orders have released their own lists. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.