Recently, an independent commission in France charged with investigating the history of abuse by clergy and Church leaders in the country released a thoroughly detailed report that found more than two hundred thousand cases of abuse at the hands of priests. Included
Professor and author Adam DeVille explores the conflicting emotions friends and parishioners have when a priest is accused of sexual abuse. He writes: “It can be wrenching when you show up at Sunday Mass expecting to see Father X but instead find
Adam A. J. DeVille writes, “Our time in this pandemic has presented us with even more opportunities to love and serve people who are suffering in so many ways. The one key lesson I have learned this year is that serving someone
Writer Adam DeVille writes that “when daily life is disrupted in ways none of us has ever lived through, self-care becomes crucial not just for frontline personnel in hospitals, but all of us dealing with widespread and massive anxiety.” He notes that
Adam A.J. DeVille writes: “In our particular cultural moment today ... we have not yet found ways to process so much death and grief — and their close comrade, rage, which is often the mask grief wears. We seem to lack ways
Several times in the past weeks I’ve seen Catholics on social media denounce the removal of statues in the United States, the United Kingdom and Belgium as acts of ‘iconoclasm,’ using that theological term from the eighth century in a careless way
In the midst of a church and culture still reeling from seemingly endless revelations of abuse, Adam DeVille asks: Are our needs today better served by refusing to commemorate people like Jean Vanier, rubbishing all his writings, and removing every reference to
Recently a Rhode Island priest compared abortion to clergy sex abuse, saying that “pedophilia doesn’t kill anyone.” However, author Adam DeVille writes that it has become overwhelmingly clear that not only is abuse is one of the most devastating adverse childhood experiences
After recent anti-Semitic attacks in New York, we look to the Church’s vocal stance against such hatred. Since Pope Pius XI in 1938, popes have spoken out against anti-Semitism, saying such actions are contrary to Catholicism. Pope Francis, too, has reiterated this
Writer Adam DeVille suggests that too often there is a negative stigma attached to seeking assistance with mental health issues, but he writes that counseling and therapy can help us to lose our false assumptions and let truth take root, allowing our