Landas Vol. 18 No. 2 (2004)

The Church is not exempt from crisis. What has enabled the ‘Church to grow and move forward is the way she faces and responds wisely to the mixture of difficulties and opportunities that arise now and then in the life of the community of believers. At present, the Church is grappling with the crisis of sexual misconduct involving the clergy. Tagle tackles this painful and confusing realty and, with great intelligence and compassion, shares his views on the need to understand the crisis in relation to cultural practices and boundaries, the call to be more sensitive to those affected by acts of misconduct—victims, perpetrators, families of both, the greater community—and the urgency of forming seminarians in accountability.