Center for Constitutional Rights to Take Vatican to Court

Ruth McCambridge

September 14, 2011

September 13, 2011; Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Angered by the fact that no high ranking Roman Catholic officials have been prosecuted for sheltering priests accused of sexual abuse, the Survivor’s Network of Those Abused by Priests will work with the Center for Constitutional Rights to appeal to the International Criminal Court for an investigation. The organization alleges that that the church has maintained a “long-standing and pervasive system of sexual violence” and accuses Vatican officials of creating policies that perpetuated the damage, constituting an attack against a civilian population.—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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