The Shadow of the Confessional: Clerical Abuse Scandals in the Pre-2000 Era
In the hushed halls of religious institutions, where sanctity and spiritual guidance were meant to be paramount, a dark undercurrent flowed for centuries, largely unseen and unheard by the outside world. Before the seismic shifts of the early 2000s brought these abuses into stark public view, a pervasive pattern of clerical abuse and so-called ‘private … Read more