Today’s interview on KFI’s Bill Carroll Show
This morning I spoke with KFI 640 AM’s Bill Carroll about my new book, child sex abuse and cover-up, and why we are seeing more female teachers being arrested for sexually abusing boys. It was a...
View ArticleWhat we can learn from the LeTourneau interview
Barbara Walters’ interview with convicted child molester Mary Kay LeTourneau and her once-victim-now-husband Vili Fualaau was gut wrenching. The romanticization of the abuse was awful enough. But...
View ArticleGuam’s Wadeson reinstated
KUAM announced today that former LA priest John Wadeson has been reinstated in the Archdiocese of Agana (Guam). I have written about Wadeson in the past. According to the Los Angeles Archdiocese, he...
View ArticleSNL pushes the line too far—and how to push back
It’s not 1984 anymore. But Saturday Night Live forgot that this past weekend. Yesterday, I discussed what we can learn from the awful Barbara Walters/Mary Kay LeTourneau interview aired last Friday....
View ArticleTEDx PasadenaWomen
Katie, bar the door: I have been invited to speak at TEDx PasadenaWomen. To say I am excited would be an understatement. Achieving this kind of goal—speaking in front of engaged and visionary women...
View ArticleHelping the supporters
I had the opportunity to work with a very strong and brave group of clergy sex abuse survivors over the weekend. Two things struck me: Their total bravery and willingness to grow beyond trauma, and...
View ArticleKansas City Bishop Robert Finn is … OUT!
It’s the the papal version of the back-handed compliment: In a one-sentence throw-away line in yesterday’s Vatican press bulletin, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop...
View ArticleA wake-up call for the Boy Scouts
Yesterday, a 17-year-old victim of child sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts filed a sex abuse and cover-up lawsuit against the local Sacramento council and the national Boy Scout organization. The...
View ArticleBar date set for St. Paul/Minneapolis abuse victims
A federal bankruptcy judge has set an August 3 deadline for victims of child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Minneapolis/St. Paul. The deadline, called a BAR DATE, is the final day and men and women...
View ArticleInside the TEDx speaker’s mind
What do you do when you get the chance of a lifetime? Worry. And sweat. I was selected to be a speaker for the May 30 TEDx Pasadena Women conference. Being a speaker at TED and TEDx are HUGE goals of...
View ArticleOne Servite High School file is all you need
This is probably the most telling document trail from today’s release of clergy sex abuse documents. From the file of Servite Friar and former Servite HS teacher Joe Sharkey: Letter from Fr. Steven...
View ArticleThe Servites are lying to you. They just don’t do it very well.
Friday’s document release from religious orders whose members abused children in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles shines a very bright light on ugly doings at Anaheim’s Servite High School. I already...
View ArticleAmbassador of Peace
Last week, I learned that I have been selected as a 2015 Ambassador of Peace award winner by the Violence Prevention Coalition of Orange County. That’s some pretty cool news! I was nominated by my...
View ArticleBook Review: How to Start a Fire
Relationships are brutal, honest, naked, and charged—few more so than those between women who are brave enough to trust each other beyond small talk and social niceties. Lisa Lutz (author of The...
View ArticleLa Respuesta Compasiva
The Compassionate Response: How to help and empower the adult victim of child sexual abuse is now available in Spanish. Paperback and Kindle editions. About the book: One of the hardest things that...
View ArticleTwin Cities Archbishop resigns—or—Who is shrewd and who is brave?
My email was flooded this morning with news that St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John C. Nienstedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee A. Piché had resigned. If you haven’t been following the news, the...
View ArticleTEDx PasadenaWomen
It’s been two weeks since I was on the TEDx stage. I am still reeling at the amazing day, the supernatural speakers, and the wonderful friends I made. I spoke about the power of responsibility and...
View ArticleBeyond the Duggars
My latest piece in the Generation X: Are You There God, It’s Me blog focuses on the Duggars and five things we can all do to prevent and identify child-on-child abuse. You can read it here.
View ArticleThe OC WarmLine
I was at the doctor’s office the other day when I saw a card for the OC WarmLine. Sponsored by the National Alliance of Mental Illness-Orange County, the WarmLine is staffed by “warm, friendly...
View ArticleLet’s jump-start bullying prevention
One of my closest friends once told me, “When you really think about it, bullying is just low-level sexual abuse.” That thought stuck with me. What also stuck with me is how prevention of bullying is...
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