CANADA
Canada.com
By Heather Yundt, Postmedia News February 17, 2012
John MacEachern, 65, remembers when he read the news in the morning paper.
“I was sad,” he said Friday. “It drained the blood out of my head.”
On Thursday, the Diocese of Antigonish in Nova Scotia announced that Rev. Paul Abbass — a top priest in the diocese — would be taking a leave of absence following complaints filed against him at a Cape Breton drug-and-alcohol rehab centre for men.
MacEachern — a Catholic involved with the diocese — called this yet another storm for members of the diocese.
“It’s a group of people out to sea and they keep getting buffeted by storms,” he said. “People are adjusting to the storms as they get on, and then they settle in, and then another storm hits, and then they adjust again.”
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