BOSTON — To the Rev. Robert Bullock, the lesson of the clerical sex abuse crisis that began in his own Boston Archdiocese is simple: Priests cannot risk remaining silent and subservient.
“Crimes were committed in our parishes by our brother priests,” said Bullock, a co-founder of the Boston Priests Forum. “What made us so passive, so supine, so unwilling to take risks?
“We can’t be that way again. Those things are going to happen again. We can’t be complicit.”
Already credited by some with playing a role in the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law as Boston archbishop, Bullock and others in the group hope the forum grows to combat the secrecy at the heart of the sex abuse problem among the clergy.
“Crimes were committed in our parishes by our brother priests,” said Bullock, a co-founder of the Boston Priests Forum. “What made us so passive, so supine, so unwilling to take risks?
“We can’t be that way again. Those things are going to happen again. We can’t be complicit.”
Already credited by some with playing a role in the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law as Boston archbishop, Bullock and others in the group hope the forum grows to combat the secrecy at the heart of the sex abuse problem among the clergy.
