By: T. Pitt Green
This book written by one of our veteran survivors is a reflection on her faith journey in healing from abuse from a predator priest. It is instructive and helpful. Other survivors of abuse tell us it has been helpful to their journey. This also may be helpful for priests or others who serve the Church and in helping professions to better understand the experience of abuse survivors.
By: T. Pitt Green and Rev. Lewis S. Fiorelli, OSFS
Veronica's Veil is a watershed in offering spiritual support to a growing number of adults who wish to integrate their Christian faith into the arduous psychological recovery from child abuse by clergy and other persons in authority. Veronica's Veil can help transform encounters with survivors of this trauma into turning points in healing. This is an essential guide for priests, sisters, deacons, other ordained and lay ministers, and therapists-as well as families and friends of abuse survivors.
By: Sue Stubbs, MS, NCC
Sue Stubbs is the director of the Archdiocese of Atlanta's Victim Assistance Program. She leads “The Way” retreats for victims/survivors of abuse. This book outlines the Stations of the Cross, the devotion to Jesus' Passion, with prayers and reflections written specifically for survivors of abuse.
By: Fr. Thomas Berg
Fr. Berg tells his own story and the stories of other Catholics who have been wounded in the Church and found healing in Jesus. Fr. Berg reflects on different types of wounds that are inflicted on those in the Church and ways to move towards healing.
By: Dawn Eden
Originally from a Jewish family, Eden became agnostic and eventually experienced a conversion Christianity that ultimately led her to the Catholic Church. Eden shares stories of wounded saints transformed by the grace of God. She explains how those sexually wounded in childhood can come to understand their identity in the love of Christ.
By: Stephen Mitchell
There are three Scripture lines worth holding in heart when reading Job. One is from Jeremiah 29:11, where the Lord promises He will hear us when we call from our exile and abject aloneness. He will listen, and He will lead us back to the happiness from where we have been exiled. It has heartened me. Another is Isaiah 30:15-18, where He comforts us, promising us our strength can lie in quiet even in the presence of evil, and that He is waiting to be gracious to us; it is a meditation on the meditative and quiet ways of God in the face of suffering. Job can have little to do with forgiveness toward evil or even understanding of God until through our surrender to what is real leads us to pray for friends who could not help us in our suffering.
By: Peter Kreeft
Kreeft is a bestselling Catholic writer who lays out in a light-hearted way the basics of suffering, including what the Church teaches about it, but more so what our Church experience through the ages has drawn upon as the faith whose image of God Triumphant is that of a human man hanging broken on a cross. That really is something important for survivors to remember, that image, and how incomprehensible the triumph of suffering still remains in every life.
By: Henri J. M. Nouwen
This book that is an answer to the What Now question after victims stop resisting their experiences. This is the path out this is the definition of freedom from suffering The book is why volunteer work is what grounds otherwise lost people and why thousands every year forgo their high level career paths to serve I is a short book because this is also classic Nouwen, pensive in a lovely way but dense in a pensive way alas Nouwen through and through.
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