Curb the crisis: 10 essential lessons.(clergy sexual abuse)

Griffith and I both are on the faculty of the University of St. Thomas School of Law and we have worked together for several years seeking to use restorative justice practices to help bring healing to all those harmed by the scourge of clergy sexual abuse, particularly victim/survivors.) These well-documented revelations (and the likelihood of more to come) obviously so disconcerted Nienstedt and others, including his longtime acquaintance, the former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganô, that they acted to ensure that the Greene Espel investigation would be first curtailed and then prematurely ended. [...]as described later, after Viganö intervened, the scope, standard and the lawyers involved in the investigation all changed - in favor of Nienstedt. In December 2015, the Attorney's Office learned of an incident where Nienstedt, at a 2005 world youth conference in Germany, allegedly took two unaccompanied teenage boys to his hotel room after a rainstorm and had them undress completely in his presence, after he had allegedly undressed in their presence, all while he was a bishop in New Ulm, Minnesota. [...]it appears that, for more than two years, the papal nuncio or other church officials have done nothing to resolve much less investigate, this alleged misconduct with minors, through what can only be described as willful blindness. [...]they allowed the Nienstedt investigation to fail as a result of the actions of Viganö, Nienstedt and possibly others.