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Dear Friends,
Voice of the Faithful has been invited to participate
in the John Jay Causes and Context Study. Beginning now
and continuing through the month of September you as a
member of Voice of the Faithful can log onto the
survey and voice your opinion on the causes
of the sex abuse crisis and how the crisis was handled.
Participation
in the survey is completely anonymous. The first page you
will see when you click on the link will be the consent
for research. The survey is set up so that only one submission
per computer will be accepted.
This survey is a great opportunity to have our voices
heard and only takes about 20 to 30 minutes to complete.
I hope you will all take the time to participate. Our
goal is to be able to present the survey results for Voice
of the Faithful at our upcoming convention October
19-20 in Providence, Rhode Island.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Mary Pat
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and Fordham
University Research Survey
The Charter for
the Protection of Children and Young People issued by
the USCCB in June of 2002 calls for an annual
report that will track the actually implementation of
the Charter. Researchers at these three institutions
have selected
to generate this report. Those researchers have asked
for VOTF's help. Click
here to take the survey.
We
seek information and assistance from members of VOTF
for two purposes: first, to help us frame the questions
we are asking of those in positions of responsibility,
and, second, to better understand the phenomenon of disclosure
of victimization. With regard to the first of these objectives,
we are interested in gaining an understanding of the
structural and leadership factors within the Roman Catholic
Church that framed the institutional response to the
child sex abuse crisis. We will concentrate on identifying
changes in organizational structure and leadership within
the American Catholic institutions, the changing relationship
of parishioners and lay leaders within established episcopal
authority, the shifting normative culture within the
Church regarding gender roles and sexuality, and the
awareness and response to clergy sex abuse.
In our second
objective, we seek to understand why individuals came
forward to report the abuse when they did. The topic
is covered in the final section of the survey, which
contains demographic questions (e.g. gender, age, race)
along with some questions about your political attitudes
and levels of community participation. These questions
will help the research team understand if some types
of people were more likely than others to become in involved
in activism on behalf of survivors of abuse. This will
also help us to understand what role VOTF has played
in helping people of various backgrounds to speak out,
and any subsequent impact these organizations had on
the Church’s response.
The National Office encourages all members to participate
in this survey.
Click
here to tak the survey.
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