Would love to see an article that makes the distinction between forgiveness and repentance and justice.  Forgiveness is about the attitude toward the person and God. It does not mean that the actions are tolerated. That never seems to be mentioned or emphasized.  It seems that forgiveness is used as a weapon to allow the continuation of sin by Christians who don’t want to face the sin. (The word compassion is abused to mean letting that continue it seems too.) This isn’t the teaching of the Church or Christ. There are many people we forgive but will fight to make sure their actions don’t continue.  We will try to do it as compassionately as possible if not forced to just stand up for the truth by those trying to distort the teaching. There are many people we forgive but know have not repented and will therefore deal with differently. This needs to be clarified.  There were people St. Paul spoke about that he would be careful even to touch their garment.  Forgiveness is sometimes distorted to a kind of blindness that subverts the teachings of Christ.

Pam, I agree totally that forgiveness doesn’t equal whitewash. Too often, we’re told to forgive & somehow we interpret that as a blank check to allow ourselves to become doormats.
  CCC #2862: “... begs God’s mercy for our offences, mercy which can penetrate our hearts only if we have learned to forgive our enemies, with the example and help of Christ.” The ‘example & the help of Christ’ can best be exemplified by His words on the Cross about each of us to His Father. Of course, as St Paul says, we shouldn’t keep offending God just because we know we’ll be forgiven! But the truth is, Jesus made excuses for us in the midst of His agony even though He knew we’d keep offending Him day after weary day.
  So, if we’re going to truly let Jesus live His life through us, we need to forgive even when we know we’ll be offended again. That said, no where are we commanded to live in abusive situations, if that’s what you’re referring to.