A survivor of sex abuse on how the church can help victims. Ep.77

“[The sex abuse crisis is] not something that I think can be fixed
by our priests alone,” Amanda Zamora told us this week. “The pain
and the harm has been caused by the church and the solution will
need to come from the church—and that includes all of us.” Amanda
is the chief audience officer at the Texas Tribune, which she
joined in 2016. Previously, she spent 13 years on the East Coast
working for organizations like The Huffington Post Investigative
Fund, The Washington Post and ProPublica. She recently wrote an
article co-published in the Texas Tribune and the Washington Post
called “I’m a Catholic survivor of abuse. I still want to hear the
church say it’s sorry.” Amanda shared her own experience of
surviving abuse within her family and how that has influenced her
perspective on the church’s crisis.   In Signs of the Times we
give an update on a couple of international stories we’ve been
following and discuss a story from Chicago involving a priest
burning a flag bearing a rainbow and a cross. We also look at a new
policy for reporting sex abuse outlined by the U.S. bishops, and
how some churches are using coffeehouse culture to evangelize and
work for justice. Have you checked out our Facebook group yet? It’s
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