Dear NCR editors--please provide an article that describes Restorative Justice in a way people can better understand it.  May I suggest you can begin with Repentance, Confession and Reconciliation--that foundation of the Church that has so often been misused--because that is a form of Restorative Justice.
  
To give a personal example--after my (seemingly sudden) conversion from atheism I had no religious community to turn to for support and my mother was deeply opposed.  And so what I did was I became very attentive to everything I said, did, or even thought.  When I felt it was wrong I would repent then and there.  It was a period of a long examination of conscience and a rethinking of my life.  No priest was involved.  It was between God and me.--a time of intense spiritual growth.

I'd like to say more but it's a hard thing to hear.  Of how to reconcile the church in relation to the ending of child molestation that has been going on for a thousand years before Jesus came.