Kazusa Okaya

Complicity without Collective Guilt: Aquinas and the Abuse Crisis

When people speak of the Church’s complicity in the abuse crisis, they usually mean particular things that particular officeholders did or failed to do. I. Th. Eschmann’s study of Aquinas’s Scriptum is widely read as ruling out any Thomist account of collective ecclesial responsibility. What Eschmann denies, I argu...