The Church’s historical gender imbalance has so fundamentally undermined its credibility for providing perspective or teaching regarding sexuality, sexual intimacy, sexual abuse and victimization that it has relegated itself to the sidelines of relevance. It isn’t seen any longer as a fit moral educator or guide since it’s foundations bear the clear signs of fracture that come from the absence of meaningful and powerful roles for women at all levels of Church society. That coupled with the duplicitous actions of  Church authority regarding child abusing clergy leaves one wondering what the Church could say in lieu of silence that could help advance relevant, instructive, just and supportive outcomes indicative of genuine renewal.