Breaking the silence / Marie L. Collins – What is sexual violence / Nancy Nason-Clark and Lanette Ruff – Child abuse: how normal development is disturbed / Peter Adriaenssens – The factor of race/ethnicity in clergy sexual abuse of children / Traci C. West – Sexual violence against children in the Bible / Andreas Michel – Sexual violence against children: a violation of the protection of children grounded in Christianity / Hubertus Lutterbach – Operative theories of priesthood: have they contributed to child sexual abuse? / Eamonn Conway – As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean : a people adrift in the ecclesiological doldrums / John P. Beal – Sexual abuse as an offence in canon law / Hans-Jrgen Guth – Child abuse by priests: the interaction of state law and canon law / RIk Torfs – Body of power and body power: the situation of the church and God’s defeat / Rainer Bucher.