Breaking the silence / Marie L. Collins -- What is sexual violence / Nancy Nason-Clark and Lanette Ruff -- Child abuse: how normal development is disturbed / Peter Adriaenssens -- The factor of race/ethnicity in clergy sexual abuse of children / Traci C. West -- Sexual violence against children in the Bible / Andreas Michel -- Sexual violence against children: a violation of the protection of children grounded in Christianity / Hubertus Lutterbach -- Operative theories of priesthood: have they contributed to child sexual abuse? / Eamonn Conway -- "As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean": a people adrift in the ecclesiological doldrums / John P. Beal -- Sexual abuse as an offence in canon law / Hans-Jrgen Guth -- Child abuse by priests: the interaction of state law and canon law / RIk Torfs -- Body of power and body power: the situation of the church and God's defeat / Rainer Bucher.