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FEB.
16, 2004
 CLERGY
ABUSE
Resources for analyzing survey of Catholic clergy abuse
IN
THE NORTHEAST
• Leslie
Lothstein is the psychology director of the Institute
of Living at the Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. Lothstein speaks frequently
about his many years treating clergy abusers. He can comment on problems in
seminary training, the issue of homosexuality in the priesthood, and clergy
abuse in the context of other denominations. Contact 860- 545-7167, Llothst@harthosp.org.
• The Rev. John A. Loftus is a professor of psychology and the psychology
of religion and from 1986 to 1993 was head of the Southdown Institute in Aurora,
Ontario, which is a leading treatment center for clergy abusers. Loftus is president
of Regis College at the University of Toronto but is on sabbatical at Boston
College in Massachusetts. He can be reached there at 617-552-6116 or ja.loftus@bc.edu.
He also has an e-mail address, ja.loftus@utoronto.ca,
at Regis College.
IN
THE EAST
• Frederick
Berlin is a nationally known expert on sexual abuse of children. Berlin was
associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and founder of the Sexual
Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is currently director of the
National Institute for
the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma in Baltimore, and he
continues to write extensively on sexual disorders for journals, including The
American Journal of Psychiatry, The New England Journal of Medicine and
the American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. He was a consultant to the
National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse from
its inception to 2000. The transcript of a 1997 interview
with Berlin on sexual abuse remains on the bishops' web site. Contact 410-539-1661.
• Elizabeth Pullen is in the doctoral program in the sociology of religion
at Drew University in Madison, N.J., where she is studying issues related to
clergy abuse, a topic she has been researching for 10 years. At the American
Academy of Religion Conference in Atlanta last November, Pullen presented a
paper titled "Putting Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests in Context: Authority,
Power, and Clerical Malfeasance." In her presentation, Pullen argued that
clergy pederasty and sexual abuse aren't limited to Catholic clergy, citing
several books and studies of the issue in Protestant denominations. Contact
201-408-5767, epullen@drew.edu.
• Merle Longwood of Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., is a professor
of religious studies (and a Lutheran at the Franciscan school) who has studied
the issue of sexuality and Catholicism. At a panel on the sexual abuse crisis
at the American Academy of Religion Conference in Atlanta in November, Longwood
argued that clergy sex abuse is not limited to Catholic clergy or to the United
States, and he was critical of efforts to tie homosexuality to the abuse crisis.
Longwood also argued that some church officials see sexual abuse of women and
girls as less severe than the abuse of boys because homosexuality is considered
more evil and contrary to natural law. Contact 518-783-2300 (department phone),
longwood@siena.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHEAST
• Mark Jordan
is a professor of religion at Emory University in Atlanta and an expert on issues
of homosexuality in Catholic life, especially in the priesthood. He is the author
of Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism (University
of Chicago Press, 2002). Contact 404-727-6002, mjorda2@emory.edu.
• Charlotte
Rolnick Schwab is a psychotherapist and author who has lectured on the issue
of sexual abuse and clergy, especially in Judaism. She draws parallels between
what is happening in the Catholic Church and what goes on in other denominations
and faiths. Schwab is the author of Sex, Lies, and Rabbis: Breaking a Sacred
Trust (1stBooks Library, 2002). She lives and practices in Delray Beach,
Fla. Contact 561-638-4757, DrSchwab@DrCharlotteSchwab.com.
IN
THE SOUTH
• Paul R. Dokecki is a professor of psychology in the department of human
and organizational development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
He is the author of a forthcoming book, The Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis: Reform
and Renewal in the Catholic Community (Georgetown University Press, March
2004). As a "community psychologist," Dokecki looks at the roots -
and solutions - of clergy sexual abuse through the lens of a social analysis
of the dysfunctions. Contact 615-322-8418, paul.r.dokecki@vanderbilt.edu.
• Jason Berry is the Louisiana journalist who broke the first scandal stories
in 1985 and wrote a book based on his reports, Lead Us Not Into Temptation:
Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (University of Illinois
Press, 2000). Berry has covered the abuse scandal for nearly 20 years and in
March will publish another book on clergy abuse, Vows of Silence: The Abuse
of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II (Free Press, 2004), written with
Gerald Renner. Contact 504-865-1793 or 504-329-7522 (cell), berr167@bellsouth.net.
• J. Patout Burns is the Edward A. Malloy Professor of Catholic Studies
at Vanderbilt University. He has been studying the issue of clerical abuse in
the context of the current crisis and can field calls about the upcoming report.
Contact 615-322-3543 or 615-414-9738 (cell), patout.burns@vanderbilt.edu.
IN
THE MIDWEST
• Anson Shupe is a professor of sociology at Indiana University-Purdue
University, Fort Wayne. He specializes in the study of what he calls clergy
malfeasance - the "violence and exploitation committed by ministers, pastors,
and gurus against their parishioners, lay people, and followers." He has
written or edited three books on the subject, covering sexual abuse, abuse of
authority and financial misconduct by clergy. They include Wolves Within
the Fold: Religious Leadership and Abuses of Power (Rutgers University Press,
1998) and Bad Pastors: Clergy Misconduct in Modern America (New York
University Press, 2000). Contact 260-481-6667, shupe@ipfw.edu.
• Anna Salter
is a consultant and author on sexual abuse, sex offenders and victimization.
She also evaluates sex offenders for civil commitment proceedings and testifies
as an expert witness in sexual abuse civil and criminal cases. Salter spoke
in February at the University of Dayton as part of the Catholic college's lecture
series on sexual abuse. Salter earned a doctorate in clinical psychology and
public practice from Harvard University and served on the faculty of Dartmouth
Medical School. She is the author of Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists and Other
Sex Offenders: Who They Are, How They Operate and How We Can Protect Ourselves
and Our Children (Basic Books, 2003). Salter lives in Madison, Wis. Contact
608-218-9417, acsalter@annasalter.com.
• Eli Coleman is director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University
of Minnesota Medical School. He is widely cited on issues related to sexual
abuse by clergy. Contact 612-625-1500, colem001@umn.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHWEST
•
Sarah Brennan is clinical director of the Samaritan
Counseling Center in Albuquerque and an expert on sexual abuse and clergy
perpetrators. During the course of a decade, Brennan treated hundreds of priests
at a center for clergy sex offenders in Jemez Springs operated by a religious
order, the Servants of the Paraclete. The center was shut down in 1994. Contact
505-842-5300, sbrennan@samaritancc.com.
• Dr. Robert Goodkind is a psychologist in private practice in Albuquerque,
N.M. He also worked at the Paraclete center treating abusive priests in the
1980s and 1990s and is conversant with the pathology of the clergy abuser. Contact
505-256-1021, kmwissel@msn.com.
IN
THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• A.W.
Richard Sipe is a former priest who is also a psychotherapist and leading
researcher on issues relating to clergy and sexuality. He is a widely cited
commentator and the author of several books on the topic, including Sex,
Priests, and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis (Brunner-Routledge, 1995). He is
a pastoral counselor at the Owen Clinic at the University of California at San
Diego. Contact 858-551-4370, AWRSipe@aol.com.
• Karen A. McClintock is a psychotherapist and United Methodist minister
who wrote Sexual Shame: An Urgent Call to Healing (Fortress Press, 2003).
She is an expert on issues of sexual abuse of children by clergy and is a consultant
to schools and churches on issues of sexuality. McClintock is an adjunct faculty
member at the psychology department at Southwestern Oregon University. She holds
a doctorate in clinical psychology from The Union Institute in Cincinnati and
a master of divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Contact 541-552-6206,
mcclintk@sou.edu.
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