How do Catholic colleges help to reform the Church in the wake of the latest revelations of clerical sex abuse? Answers vary widely across the hundreds of tertiary institutions that identify with the Faith. Dr Dennis DePerro, the president of Bonaventure University, has taken an unusually proactive tack, calling on his local ordinary, Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, to resign.
While Dr DePerro admires Bishop Malone’s “unflinching desire to repair the damage” caused by abuse, he observes that “sometimes, the most courageous thing a man can do is to step aside and recognise that his voice is no longer being heard and that he stands in the way of creating true resolution.”
