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Article: Little genuine progress on sex abuse.(bishops' Office of Child and Youth Protection)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- April 20, 2007
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In her cover letter accompanying the submission of the 2006 audits of diocesan child protection programs (see related story, Page 11), Teresa Kettelkamp, executive director of the bishops' Office of Child and Youth Protection, says there is a "surrounding atmosphere that one might describe as Refusal to See the Evidence" (capitals and bold in original).
"It takes two forms," says Kettelkamp. "Those who see the bishops in a negative light refuse to acknowledge the positive steps they have taken to address the problem of child sexual abuse and refuse to see the evidence that demonstrates the accomplishments which have been made."
And, secondly, "those who ...