Toward Healing and Renewal: The 2012 Symposium on the Sexual Abuse of Minors Held at the Pontifical Gregorian UniversityIn recent years the sexual abuse of minors by members of the church, and especially by priests, has been a scandal both to church leaders and to many people worldwide. For his part, Pope Benedict XVI has himself spoken about this issue in his Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland when he said that "grave errors of judgment were made and failures of leadership occurred. The Holy Father is convinced that the crisis caused by the revelation of such