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Beyond Betrayal: the Priest Sex Abuse Crisis, Voice of Faithful, and Process Collective Identity
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Beyond Betrayal: the Priest Sex Abuse Crisis, Voice of Faithful, and Process Collective Identity
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Beyond Betrayal: the Priest Sex Abuse Crisis, Voice of Faithful, and Process Collective Identity
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In 2002, the national spotlight fell on Boston’s archdiocese, where decades of rampant sexual misconduct from priestsand the church’s systematic cover-upswere exposed by reporters from the
. The sordid and tragic stories of abuse and secrecy led many to leave the church outright and others to rekindle their faith and deny any suggestions of institutional wrongdoing. But a number of Catholics vowed to find a middle ground between these two extremes: keeping their faith while simultaneously working to change the church for the better.
l charts a nationwide identity shift through the story of one chapter of Voice of the Faithful (VOTF), an organization founded in the scandal’s aftermath. VOTF had three goals: helping survivors of abuse; supporting priests who were either innocent or took risky public stands against the wrongdoers; and pursuing a broad set of structural changes in the church. Patricia Ewick and Marc W. Steinberg follow two years in the life of one of the longest-lived and most active chapters of VOTF, whose thwarted early efforts at ecclesiastical reform led them to realize that before they could change the Catholic Church, they had to change themselves. The shaping of their collective identity is at the heart of
, an ethnographic portrait of how one group reimagined their place within an institutional order and forged new ideas of faith in the wake of widespread distrust.