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Further Challenges to Greek Orthodox Clergy-Laity Conference

May 9, 2008 |

Greek Orthodox Clergy-Laity Conference

The Take Our Church Back! blog affirmed a recent letter to the editor challenging the GOA’s misconduct policy and commitment to child safety and had this to say:

We join Mrs. Metropoulos in imploring that delegates attending the Clergy-Laity Conference this summer challenge the Archdiocese’s Clergy Sexual Misconduct Policy. We must:

  • Question the hierarchy’s commitment to child safety within the church.
  • Insist that the corruption and secrecy within our hierarchy be stopped, and that those who sexually violate our children be held completely accountable.
  • Stipulate that victims deserve compassion, not alienation and blame.
  • Ensure that preventive procedures, policies, and appropriate responses be better developed and utilized.
  • Demand that the Archdiocese provide on their Web site a link listing the names and photographs of all clergy suspended or defrocked for sexual misconduct so that they do not infiltrate other unsuspecting communities.

To this we would add one more reform:

  • Require that all individual Greek Orthodox parish communities are acknowledged and respected by the hierarchy as the rightful and proper owners of their own incorporated properties.

The future of our church depends upon it. Source


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