St. John
    office@stjohnsindy.org
    317-635-2021
    • Home
    • About Us
      • Online >
        • Mass Feed >
          • Sunday Mass
          • Daily Mass
          • Mass Guidelines
          • Divine Mercy Chaplet
          • Prepare for Mass
          • Daily Mass Prayers
        • Devotional Feed >
          • Rosary Walk
        • Mass Dispensation
        • Confessions
        • Reopening Plan
        • FORMED
        • Families
        • St. Patrick Breastplate Prayer
      • Staff >
        • Job Openings
      • History
      • Mobile App
      • Join Email List
      • Bulletin Advertisers >
        • Trillium Dental
        • Scott Knust
        • Dylan Lee Videography
        • Dan Shea
        • McGowan Hall
      • Colts Parking
    • I'm New
      • Become a New Parishioner
      • New Parishioner Welcome
      • Become Catholic >
        • RCIA
      • Join Email List
      • Stewardship
      • Visit Us
    • Worship
      • Liturgy Schedule >
        • Ash Wednesday
      • Stations of the Cross
      • Prayer List
      • Devotions
      • Adoration >
        • Adoration Chapel
        • Adoration Chapel Access
        • Adoration - Insert 1
        • Adoration - Insert 2
        • Adoration - Insert 3
        • Adoration - Insert 4
        • Adoration - Insert 5
      • Downtown Indy Parishes
    • Formation
      • Sacraments >
        • Baptism >
          • Schedule a Baptism
          • Godparent Info
          • Marital Status
        • Confession
        • First Communion
        • Confirmation
        • Weddings
        • Holy Orders
        • Anointing of the Sick
      • Children & Youth Religious Education >
        • Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
        • Youth Confirmation
        • Letter from Father Nagel
      • Become Catholic >
        • RCIA
        • RCIA Sessions
      • Vocations >
        • Vocation & Mission
        • Race for Vocations
      • Charisms >
        • What are Charisms?
        • Charism Descriptions
      • Resource Room
    • Ministries
      • Parish Council Leadership >
        • Feasibility Study
      • Worship & Devotion >
        • Become a Mass Minister
        • Mass Ministry Training
      • Buildings & Grounds >
        • Church Cleaning
      • Finance Council >
        • United Catholic Appeal
        • State of the Parish 2020
      • Social Justice >
        • Tree of Life
        • Garden Door Ministry
        • Haiti Ministry >
          • Haiti Fish Fry
        • The Geode Project
        • St. Dismas Prison Ministry
        • Sanctity of Life >
          • Hour of Mercy
          • Local March for Life >
            • Day of Prayer
          • 9 Days for Life
          • Pro-Life Film Series
          • 40 Days for Life
        • St. Vincent de Paul
      • Fellowship
      • Evangelization >
        • St. Joseph Consecration
        • Beloved Daughters
        • Esto Vir
        • St. John Tours
      • Faith Formation >
        • Book Studies
        • Shroud of Turin
        • Standing with Church Teaching
    • Get Involved
      • Lenten Events
      • Young Adults >
        • Lenten Retreat
        • Before We Adore
      • College Students
      • Families
      • Traditional Parishioners
      • Daily Mass Goers
      • Visitors >
        • NCYC
        • Colts Parking
      • Christkindl Village
    • Contact
    • Tithing
      • Online Giving Users
      • Amazon Smile
    Picture

    What about Clergy Sexual Abuse? 

    As the statistics show, sexual abuse is a wide spread issue that affects people across all walks of life. Sexual abuse is typically committed by individuals in positions of power and trust. Just like society at large, the Catholic Church is made up of sinful, broken people and priests are no exception. Sexual abuse by priests and members of the clergy is a particularly heinous way that the devil has attacked the Church.

    Priests are appointed as spiritual leaders who are given immense power and trust within the church. They are entrusted with the spiritual formation of their parish, including men, women, and children. As such, they have many opportunities to positively or negatively impact their parish. Sadly, this sometimes means that fallen priests do groom and perpetrate sexual abuse. This abuse is particularly impactful because it comes from men in power who are entrusted to be shepherds of their flock and representatives of God in our world. These men pervert God’s plan for His Church, for our sexuality, and can lead to victims feeling alienated and hurt in the very places they are supposed to be safest and find refuge. 

    If you or someone you know has been a victim of clergy sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, you can report it here or talk with Fr Rick Nagel (fathernagel@gmail.com) about it. 

    Return to The Geode Project Homepage ​
    Liturgy Schedule

    Weekend Mass Schedule

    ​Sunday: 8am, 10:30am, 7pm

    *Mass Live stream at 10:30am - learn more here
    ​*
    No Saturday Evening Vigil Mass 



    Weekday Mass Schedule
    Mon-Fri: 12:10pm at St. John's & Online via Live Stream 
    Click here for more info on live stream of Mass 
    ​

    Holy Hours 
    Learn more about Adoration - Click Here 

    St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
    126 W. Georgia St.
    Indianapolis, IN 46225-1004
    Phone: (317) 635-2021
    office@stjohnsindy.org

    Picture
    Website Development by The Parish Solutions Company
    Back to top