Publications

Melesky Dante, Cathy, Mark A. Levand, and Karen Ross. 2024. “Power Literacy in Abuse Prevention Education: Lessons from the Field in the Catholic Safeguarding Response.” Journal of Moral Theology 13 (1): 130–55. https://doi.org/10.55476/001c.92065.

Fortunato, J.A.. “Crisis framing: One Jesuit university’s response to the Catholic priest sexual abuse and cover up crisis.” Journal of Communication & Religion, 45(4) (2023), 41-56.
Kelly, Conor. “A Theological Crisis Demands a Theological Response: Practical Theology as a Corrective to the Clergy Abuse Scandal,” Offerings 16, no. 1 (2023): 65–89] https://crossroadpublishing.com/product/offerings16/.
Martin, Daniel J. “My Priest.” Pleiades: Literature in Context, vol. 42, no 2, Winter 2023. https://pleiadesmag.com/
Mescher, Marcus. “Toward a Taxonomy of Moral Injury: Confronting the Harm Caused by Clergy Sexual Abuse,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 43, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2023), 75-91.
Mescher, Marcus. “Clergy Sexual Abuse as Moral Injury: Confronting a Wounded and Wounding Church.” in Doing Theology and Theological Ethics in the Face of the Abuse Crisis (Journal of Moral Theology 3) ) ed .Fleming, Daniel, James Keenan, SJ, and Hans Zollner, SJ. (CTEWC Book Series 3, 2023).
Theuring, Ashley and Anne Fuller. “Clergy Sexual Abuse and Moral Injury: The Impact on Jesuit University Students,” in Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence: An Intersectional Guide by Debra Meyers and Mary Sue Barnett (London: Routledge, 2023)

Seitz, John C..”Secrecy, Sex Abuse, and the Practice of Priesthood” in The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy, ed. Hugh B. Urban and Paul Christopher Johnson (New York: Routledge, 2022).

Fortunato, John A.. “Institutional crisis assessment and mission-driven response in practice: One religious-affiliated university’s response to the Catholic priest sexual abuse and cover up crisis.” Public Relations Review 47, no. 5 (2021): 1–10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2021.102111.
Seitz, John C.. “Stoic Brothers and Feeling Men: Abuse and Contemporary Clerical Masculinities in the U.S.,” American Catholic Studies 132: 2 (Summer 2021), 15-21.