Dear Friends, Much of the world is currently experiencing fear and trauma. Bishop Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, DC spoke for many of them when she addressed the president at a National Prayer Service with a plea for mercy “upon the people in our country who are scared now.” Many Catholics, including the U.S. bishops, have joined her in speaking on behalf of immigrants and refugees, the poor, and those in marginalized communities.            For many Catholics the work of contending with trauma and moral injury continues in our own house. The impacts of clergy sex abuse are still being felt. This abuse is particularly damaging because the perpetrators operate under the “halo of religion,” affecting not only the immediate victims but their families and the wider community of...