ILLINOIS
Daily Journal
By Dennis Yohnka
dyohnka@daily-journal.com
815-937-3384
Last week’s on-again, off-again reinstatement of the Rev. Lee Ryan, former pastor of St. Edmund Catholic Church in Watseka, reopened the emotional wounds of a parish.
It also brought a new voice into a generally stifled discussion of the priest’s innocence or guilt — a matter that will never come to a real courtroom.
Ryan, 79, was removed from the ministry in May 2010, based on claims of sexual abuse filed by a Florida man, now 52.
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