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Cardinal Law on video projection says Mass for 3000 faithful at the annual Archdiocesan Convocation. Lay leaders spent the day expressing their feelings to the hierarchy concerning the Church's handling of the scandal Law came to symbolize. Boston, Mass., March 2002
Kathy Dwyer has been speaking out since the 1980's about sexual abuse, a public health problem the American Medical Association calls “a silent, violent epidemic in the U.S. today.” A survivor of clergy abuse and incest, Kathy embodies pain and power. She advocates for a bill which would eliminate all time limits on criminal prosecutions for rape and sex crimes. The statute of limitations and lack of child endangerment laws has prevented most abusive priests and supervising bishops from being criminally prosecuted for past crimes. Boston, Mass., November 2003
Advocates for victims of clergy abuse often bring their own children to protests at the Cathedral. They gather every Sunday to demand accountability for the Church’s past actions, and support victims struggling to heal. Boston, Mass., December 2002
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