Building a Family Narrative Across Generations & Viewpoints
The Spirit Fire World Broadcast on Abuse, Faith & Pastoral Care follows a learning program, like any good therapeutic process, including learning what abuse is, how abuse dynamics work, and how both families and institutions recover.
We are also releasing one-on-one interviews with friends who have been engaging in the protection of children and efforts to offer pastoral care to survivors in our Church. Like any good therapeutic process, we are also creating one story, a shared memory, out of many pieces.
You'll be surprised as we go. Of that, we are sure.
You may even be inspired.
Take a moment to review what you need to do during this storytelling exercise.
CARDINAL SEAN P. O'MALLEY, OFM, CAP.
Archbishop of Boston
President, Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
JOHN H. GARVEY
President
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
LUIS A. TORRES, JR., ESQ.
Spirit Fire Co-Founder
Review Board Member
Survivor Advocate
Speaker, Author
MIKE HOFFMAN, CFo
Spirit Fire Survivor
Co-Founder, Healing Voices Magazine
Child Protection Advocate
Speaker, Author
JASMINE SALAZAR, LMSW
Victim Assistant Coordinator
Vice Chancellor
Diocese of Brooklyn, New York
HEATHER BANIS, PhD
Victims Assistance Ministry Coordinator
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Professor, UCLA
THOMAS THARAYIL, LCSW, BCD
Director, Office of Assistance Ministry
Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois
Adjunct Professor, Loyola University
REGINA A. QUINN
Director, Safe Environment Office
Chair, Diocesan Task Force
Diocese of Columbus, Ohio
SANDRA MUNOZ, ESQ.
Member
Independent Review Board
Diocese of Brooklyn, New York
STEPHEN P. WHITE
Executive Director
The Catholic Project
The Catholic University of America
Healing takes time.
Let's take some time together as a Church family.
We begin piecing together memories
to create a story about darkness where Light triumphs with
time, healing, fearlessness, resilience... and each other.
Our Catholic Story
is the first step in the Spirit Fire restorative justice process that
The Spirit Fire Global Conference on Abuse and Faith promises to be.
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