UNITED STATES
Clergy Sexual Abuse Recovery

An accusation of clergy sexual abuse has been made against your pastor (or another beloved priest). The alleged victim, “Jane Doe”, said she was abused 30 years ago, and had filed a lawsuit against him and the diocese.

What do you think? He’s your pastor, a great guy, very charismatic and loved by all. He involves himself in parish activies, especially at the school. He is invited to dinner at parishioners’ houses regularly and makes people laugh. And those homilies. Oh, those homilies! They are spot on, inspiring and uplifting.

But now this “victim”, she calls herself, is saying he is not the man he says he is. In fact, he is quite the opposite. She claims that he pushed himself on her and gets very specific about the things he allegedly did to her that were unimaginably horrible.

No way. Not Father….