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Praying the Rosary with and for Abuse Survivors
Praying As a Community Awake Leadership Team Praying As a Community Awake Leadership Team

Praying the Rosary with and for Abuse Survivors

On Tuesday, October 18, the Feast of St. Luke, a group of 30 lay people and clergy members from across the United States gathered on Zoom to pray a rosary with and for survivors of sexual abuse.

This prayer service used the Glorious Mysteries, inviting participants to reflect on the reality of abuse in light of God’s promise of resurrection and new life. Each decade of the rosary was led by a different survivor of abuse in the Catholic Church, who offered an intention based on their own experience.

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Catholics Have Questions About Awake’s Next Step Recommendations. We Offer Answers.

Catholics Have Questions About Awake’s Next Step Recommendations. We Offer Answers.

We call the recommendations “Next Steps” because we see them as building on the progress the Archdiocese of Milwaukee has already made to assist survivors and address abuse by church leaders. But we believe more can and should be done. We developed these recommendations carefully over the course of two years by listening deeply to survivors and researching widely accepted best practices already implemented in other dioceses.

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