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Father Griffith: Restorative justice brings compassion, healing to UST law school efforts

by | Mar 5, 2021 | , , , , , , | 0 |

The first time Father Daniel Griffith heard of restorative justice, he thought it sounded “New Age-y” and kind of ethereal. “What I found in the last five years is that it’s extraordinarily effective because I think it’s human,” he said.

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Victim-survivors share impact of clergy sexual abuse at restorative justice conference

by | Jan 26, 2020 | , , , , , , | 0 |

For Frank Meuers, a victim of clergy sexual abuse, the impact is far-reaching and never-ending.

“It’s like a stone in a pond,” he said, “the hole disappears, but the ripple effects go on and on.”

A member of St. Joseph Parish in New Hope and director of the southwest Minnesota chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, Meuers described the anger he lived with for years – and the help he received through therapy. He shared that and more as part of a five-person panel of victim-survivors at a Jan. 23 conference organized by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

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Restorative justice heals at the heart of hurt

by | Jan 22, 2020 | , , , , , | 0 |

Father Dan Griffith has held the stone.

He has felt the emotional weight and lifting of that weight from holding that small stone, sharing in a healing circle his story of secondary trauma from the Church’s clergy sexual abuse crisis. And in an official capacity with the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis he is helping to spread the concept of healing circles and restorative justice both in the archdiocese and beyond in hopes others impacted by the crisis — particularly victims/survivors, those directly harmed by sexual abuse in the Church — can begin to heal.

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