June 2019 Issue

In 2003, I attended a gathering of clergy sex-abuse survivors in Lexington, Kentucky, for St. Anthony Messenger’s June special issue on the crisis.

This past April, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI returned to the public eye in a spectacular fashion.

I received my first Eucharist from the hands of a sexual abuser—and this has shaken my faith.

In August 2018, a Pennsylvania grand jury released a report on clerical sexual abuse in six Catholic dioceses in the state.

UglyDolls A factory produces different kinds of felt dolls, and all of them must pass through quality control inspection. When a doll is deemed imperfect, it is sent to a hidden and remote inlet along the shoreline called Uglyville.