Returning Catholic FAQs: About the Scandals

On Mondays, I answer questions frequently asked by those considering a return to the Catholic Church. How do I know this stuff? I was away for more than 30 years myself, and am the co-author of When They Come Home: Ways to Welcome Returning Catholics , a book for pastors and parish leaders interested in this ministry.

How do I come back to a Church whose leaders turned a blind eye to decades of pedophilia and other sexual abuse and then tried to cover it all up?

This is a Church of imperfect peop...