Abuse scandals and crises are seemingly built into the fabric of Global Catholicism. While comparisons may be made with other institutions, and certainly religious ones, much is distinctively configured within Catholicism. This may reflect the power of a profound association between the ways people experience the sacred and a set-apart clerical caste, building on dimensions of celibacy and maleness in complicated ways. Abuse in Global Catholicism has nonetheless institutional dimensions writ large, not simply clerical. That is, cases exist among non-ordained members of religious orders, teachers in Catholic schools, and others who draw on the moral authority of the Church as an institution. What can we learn about Global Catholicism from this reality? What kinds of comparisons may be drawn? What are the deeper theological, ecclesiological, and comparative religious implications? What does this suggest about the role of institutional power and leadership? How much of an effect have these scandals had on the social role of the Church? How effective have the responses of the Church at various levels been?Chair: Bryan Froehle (Palm Beach Atlantic University)Speakers: Massimo Faggioli (Villanova University), Approaching the History of the Abuse Crisis through a Global Catholic Lens: Emerging Methodological IssuesWim Vandewiele (KU Leuven), Vulnerability & capital within Global Catholicism: an institutional systemic attempt to approach the abuse crisisNatalia Marandiuc (United Lutheran Seminary), Sexual Trauma, Human Attachments, and Embodied Grace: Theological Considerations About the Abuse in the Catholic Church