In summer 2010, Robert Orsi, Terence McKiernan, and I began a conversation about the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. We came from three different perspectives: Bob was one of the leading scholars of religion in America whose many works offer a rich anthropology of American Catholicism; Terry founded BishopAccountability.org in 2003 and has since served as that organization’s president; and I was a junior faculty member interested in the overlapping histories of religion and sexuality. I had read Bob's piercing 2002 essay, "A Crisis About the Theology of Children,” as well as Mark Jordan's Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech (2003), and I wanted to see more work by scholars of religion confronting the stunning archive collected in BishopAccountability.org. There had been a spate of popular commentary in 2002, but within the published domain of the study of religion, besides Bob and Mark, there was silence.