Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) is a worldwide organization of human rights’ activists and survivors from over 17 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.
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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.
Cardinal DiNardo Announces Plan to Halt Vote to Impose Measures of Accountability for U.S. Bishops
November 12, 2018. President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Cardinal Daniel DiNardo opened the general assembly this morning with an announcement that per order of the Holy See, no vote would be taken on procedural measures posed [...]
Bishops’ Proposal Designed to Prevent U.S. Justice System Oversight
RNS photo by Jack Jenkins. November 11, 2018. This weekend, the Washington Post reported on several proposals from the United States Conference on Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to curb the child sex abuse and cover-up scandal that has gained prominence in [...]
Gingrich must get Vatican assurances that bishops will comply with DOJ directive to not destroy abuse files, groups says.
Just days before American bishops meet, survivors urging U.S. Ambassador to intervene with Pope Francis. Also seeking public release of all Vatican and U.S. State Department correspondences on clergy abuse. U.S victims and advocates requesting meeting with Gingrich. Link to [...]
ECA 11-5-18 Letter to US Ambassador to the Holy See
November 5, 2018 The Honorable Callista Gingrich United States Ambassador to the Holy See United States Embassy to the Holy See Via Sallustiana, 49 00187 Rome, Italy Re: Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse and the U.S. Response to the Vatican [...]
Global group of activists and survivors of sexual abuse in France and elsewhere stand with Vignon
(Photo credit: John Leicester, File/Associated Press) Statement by Nadia Debbache, ECA Assembly Member and Lead Counsel for La Parole Libérée. November 4. 2018. French priest Pierre Vignon, a judge of the Officiality or Ecclesiasticel Court of Lyon (France) [...]
US DOJ orders all US bishops not to destroy abuse documents, but in previous post Pennsylvania bishop did just that.
October 26, 2018. Today it was learned that the U.S. Department of Justice has put every US diocese under notice to “not destroy, discard, dispose of, delete, or alter any” documents related to the sexual abuse of children as they investigate [...]
Survivors from around the globe welcome US federal investigation of Pennsylvania dioceses but inquiry needs to be nationwide
US justice officials are well behind Australia and other countries. October 18, 2018. Today it was learned that the US Justice Department has finally launched an investigation into the sex abuse of children and the cover up of those crimes [...]