(The Pillar).
Teresa Pitt Green is a survivor of clergy sexual abuse.
She is an advocate for abuse survivors, an expert in restorative justice, and a witness to the harm of clergy abuse, and the possibility of healing.
Pitt Green is a co-founder of Spirit Fire, which “is a fellowship of survivors of abuse within the Church who share, as part of our ongoing recovery, a spiritual practice which permits us to offer our wisdom, experience, and faith to all others who seek healing, growth, and reconciliation in the wake of the abuse of children and vulnerable adults in a faith setting – in particular in the Catholic Church,” according to the group’s website
In November 2018, she addressed the U.S. bishops’ conference, during a prayer service in the wake of the Theodore McCarrick scandal.
“This is my story,” she told the USCCB. “Long ago — five decades ago — where the innocence of childhood was entrusted to the holiness of priests, evil struck. And that wounded relationship — that ruptured relationship — has yet to heal.”