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Faced with the crisis of child sexual abuse by clerics that dramatically came to light in 2002, the church set up an aggressive safe environment program that is the envy of other organizations that work with children. From the 2009 audit, we can say the Catholic Church in the United States:

  • Trained more than 2.1 million clergy, employees, and volunteers in parishes in how to create safe environments and prevent child sexual abuse.
  • Prepared more than 5.2 million children to recognize abuse and protect themselves.
  • Ran background checks on more the 1,887,000 volunteers and employees, 166,000 educators, 52,000 clerics and 6,000 candidates for ordination.

What's New

Gregorian Symposium in Rome, February 2012: Click here for the text of papers from the Symposium.

2012 Child Abuse Prevention Month Resources

Other Resources

The following are resources dioceses/eparchies may find useful in making the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People part of what we do as Church.


To Learn More About Efforts to Protect Children, Link to Your Diocese/Eparchy

Charter Implementation Resources


Prayers

  • Prayer for Healing-Victims of Abuse

Promise to Protect Prayer Card English  |  Spanish
Two-Sided Promise to Protect Prayer Card English Side | Spanish Side

  • Rosary Guide for Healing and Protection

Online Version  English | Spanish
Printable Booklet Version  English | Spanish





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