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Making Amends for Sexual Misconduct

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Question:

What is the appropriate reparation to the community for sexual misconduct?

Answer:

The Christian community doesn’t need to know about your sexual misconduct, nor does the larger community. To make amends, if possible, repent to those with whom you have engaged in sexual misconduct, receive sacramental absolution in confession, and then live a chaste life and encourage others to do so by your words and deeds.

If you’ve committed crimes via your sexual misbehavior, turn yourself in to the police as well.

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