The exposing of abuse by Church clerics and the explosive revelations of how the Church hierarchy tried to deny, hide, and stifle testimonies of this abuse—even by bribing or threatening victims or by using power and money to string out and deceive the victims with legal ploys and labyrinths—has done the Church great and irreparable harm. But there is another, possibly equally damaging facet to this piece of Church history: By making visible and clear the Church's attitudes toward control, abuse, and manipulation, it has allowed members to reinterpret their own Catholic upbringing and to identify in it incidents and themes that have been damaging over their lives that they previously were only slightly aware of. The voices within of shame, self-belittlement, and unnecessary guilt for being a normal human being: these too have been exposed, and our recoiling response to them is to see the Church as capable of horrors and harm even in its teaching—something to protect ourselves from.