MAY 31, 2005

CLERGY ABUSE UPDATE
The Catholic Church faces new steps in dealing with scandal

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Leslie Lothstein is psychology director of the Institute of Living at the Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., and speaks frequently about his many years treating clergy abusers. He can comment on seminary training problems, the homosexuality issue and clergy abuse in other denominations. Contact 860- 545-7167, Llothst@harthosp.org.
• The Rev. John A. Loftus, S.J., a professor of the psychology of religion, from 1986 to 1993 was head of the Southdown Institute in Aurora, Ontario, a leading treatment center for clergy abusers. Loftus is currently teaching at Boston College in Massachusetts. Contact 617-552-6116, ja.loftus@bc.edu.

IN THE EAST
• Frederick Berlin is a nationally known expert of sexual abuse of children. Berlin was founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He directs 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 Catholic bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse from its inception to 2000. Contact 410-539-1661.
• Elizabeth Pullen is a doctoral student in sociology of religion at Drew University in Madison, N.J., where she is studying clergy abuse issues, a topic she has been researching for 10 years. At the American Academy of Religion Conference in Atlanta in November 2003, Pullen presented a paper, "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 2003, 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 SOUTH
• Paul R. Dokecki is a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and author of The Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis: Reform and Renewal in the Catholic Community (Georgetown University Press, 2004). 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 has also written and commented extensively on the Maciel case and the Legionaries of Christ. Contact 504-865-1793 or 504-329-7522 (cell), berr167@bellsouth.net.
• J. Patout Burns is 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. Contact 615-322-3543 (office), 615-414-9738 (cell), patout.burns@vanderbilt.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 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 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 in Minneapolis. 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, N.M., operated by a religious order, the Servants of the Paraclete. The center closed 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
• 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.
• A.W. Richard Sipe is a former priest who also is 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.