Shaking The Tree: From Silence to Speech, is a key part of the Spirit Unbounded event ‘Human Rights in the Emerging Catholic Church’.

 

Victim-survivors of church-based abuse from across the world share their stories. We are women and men; lay people, women religious, priests and former priests. Everyone has the human right to be protected from harm and to be safe. These stories show that this is not the case in the Catholic Church today. World-wide survivors are met with silence, denial and hypocrisy. Church authorities prioritise the reputation of the church before protection of victims.

 

Our starting point is ‘your story is as unique as your life, as your own dignity’.