Peter Isely, right, a survivor of sexual abuse by a priest, and founder of ECA (Ending Clergy Abuse), Tim Law, and Denise Buchanan, attend a march with survivors of clergy sexual abuse and activists near the Vatican in Rome September 27. Photo: OSV News/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters. While the doors of the Synod on Synodality, taking place in the Vatican October 4-29, are closed to journalists and the public, a group of survivors of sexual abuse anxiously awaits news on how the assembly addresses the clerical sexual abuse that affected their lives so painfully.
Ruadhán Jones