At the end of the proceedings at the Vatican Summit on the sexual abuse of minors, one has to wonder what the hope of this summit might be. His Holiness Pope Francis used the term “zero tolerance”.
When I hear this term being bandied about, I shake my head and know that sexual abuse has not been understood. Sexual abuse of minors is an addiction just like any other addiction. But, before becoming an addiction, it is a repetition of experienced trauma and, once …
