The Church Study Committee appointed by Father Malloy in the
wake of the sexual abuse scandal will sponsor a conference on
campus October 14.
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, editor of Commonweal, a
journal of opinion edited and managed by lay Catholics, and R.
Scott Appleby, director of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies, will speak along with Notre Dame faculty in theology,
psychology and law. Steinfels and Appleby were the two lay people
who addressed the U.S. bishops at their meeting in Dallas earlier
this year.
Later in the year the committee of 11 faculty and administrators
plans to facilitate a private consultation with a group of bishops.
That meeting is intended to continue the dialogue initiated by
the reflections and recommendations letter sent by the committee
to all the American bishops prior to the Dallas meeting. A number
of bishops replied to the committee with thanks and further reflections
on the content of that document.
