Young, precarious, and accustomed to following orders: young ballet dancers were the perfect victims writes Alice Robb in her new memoir, “Don’t Think, Dear”, about her love affair with ballet. Jeffrey Epstein who would go looking for young girls to abuse at New York ballet classes, including at an Upper East Side studio where AliceContinue reading “Young ballet dancers were the perfect victims, writes Alice Robb”
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Bloomberg’s headlights for the second week of June 2022
Communication kept open and Ukraine taking a major step toward joining the European Union whilst a debate about gender inequality takes place in China.
Looking at 2021 in a nutshell
A brief overview of what is most noteworthy to remember about the 2021 events.
Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church
Speaking into current #MeToo and #ChurchToo conversations, Mrs. Langberg’s book “Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church” shows that the body of Christ desperately needs to understand the forms power takes, how it is abused, and how to respond to abuses of power.
The abuses of priest make Catholics give up their religion
At the end of last century it bothered people the most that bishops, when they found out about abuses by their priests, did not punish the perpetrator but simply transferred him to another place. In Belgium, there was even a very distinguished bishop who made sexual victims himself and when the courts came after him, he hid in France, where he can still live undisturbed today. Such facts made several Catholics leave their religion.