Clergy-abuse inquiries drove significant Christian institutional child-protection reform

Evidence

Third — the contemporary global Christian-clergy-abuse reckoning. The 2002-onward Catholic-clergy-sexual-abuse reckoning. The 2010s-onward Protestant and Orthodox clergy-abuse reckoning. The UK’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA, completed 2022). The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013–2017). These reckonings have documented the operational scale of institutional-Christian failure to protect children across the past century. The contemporary global Christian institutional response — informed by the children’s-theology recovery and prompted by these reckonings — has produced significant institutional-policy reform across the global Christian institutional apparatus. — , The Rod and the Child, 3405

Categorization

• XREF: Ties the abuse reckoning into the children’s-theology recovery as twin drivers of policy change — echoes the book’s running institutional-vs-lay distinction.