Sentences with phrase «wounding of innocent children»

The international sex abuse crisis has involved revelations of the deep wounding of innocent children and their families by the sinful actions of individual priests and religious, sometimes enabled by the, at best, incompetence and, at worst, callous dereliction of duty of some members of the Church's hierarchy.

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We all have issues that we struggle with, and if we could have made ourselves into the perfect person that we are striving to be, then we would have done so but, we can't and won't until faith in God (innocent as the faith of a child) graces the suspicious and protective nature that we all have as a result of life, people, and events that have wounded the human spirit.

We accept the role of the media in calling us to account concerning our protection and care of innocent children and their families, not least those who have been deeply wounded by those who they naturally would expect to trust the most.

As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dead.