ECA to Pope Leo: Our Door Is Open – Global Coalition Urges Pope to Turn Words into Action on Clergy Abuse
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ECA to Pope Leo: Our Door Is Open
Global Coalition Urges Pope to Turn Words into Action on Clergy Abuse
Rome, June 26, 2025 — Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA), a global coalition of survivor-advocates and allies, welcomes Pope Leo XIV’s recent call for bishops to take “firm and decisive” action on clergy sexual abuse. As reported by the Catholic News Agency, the Pope emphasized the need for full transparency and accountability, a message that survivor groups have long fought to have heard.
“We’re encouraged by the Pope’s […]
Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) is a worldwide organization of human rights’ activists and survivors from over 21 countries and 5 continents who focus on children’s and victims’ rights to compel the Church to end clerical abuse, especially child sexual abuse, in order to protect children and to seek effective justice for victims.
ECA demands the end of the Church’s structural mechanism that allows abuse.
HISTORY OF ECA
Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) is a new effort that began in August, 2017, in Washington DC from an idea of Barbara Blaine. She asked, “Can we put together a team of clergy abuse activists from all parts of the world to confront the pope and the Vatican?” “Can we show our unity of purpose and no longer be isolated voices?” A group of activists answered positively and Barbara called it The Accountability Project or TAP. Barbara was planning a TAP meeting in Poland for November, 2017, when she died suddenly in September…
HOW YOU CAN HELP
ECA, Ending Clergy Abuse is a new initiative and it is still in formation. Word is getting out and our base is growing. Even within this short amount of time we see that our impact is tangible. We envision a global network of activists united in the common cause of ending clergy abuse. With your support we can do our part to make the world safer for children and redress the wrongs already committed.
ECA is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation.
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MEDIA ADVISORY | An Unlikely Alliance: Survivors and Clergy Call for a Universal ‘One Strike and You’re Out’ Church Mandate on Abuse and Cover-Ups
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ECA GLOBAL NEWS UPDATES – SUMMER 2023
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