CANADA
Vancouver Sun
BY BRIAN MORTON, VANCOUVER SUN
The Anglican Church of Canada will issue a formal apology Monday for the historical abuse perpetrated by one of its priests, in the hopes of making amends to victims who never came forward.
The late Goichi Gordon Nakayama, a former priest in B.C. and Alberta and the father of poet and novelist Joy Kagawa, ministered to the Japanese-Canadian community. He was ordained in 1932 and left the church in 1995, the same year he died.
In 1994, he confessed in a letter to church officials to sexually abusing many people and resigned from the church in 1995.
The church dealt with the scandal internally, allowing Nakayama to resign. There’s nothing to indicate that the police were ever informed, said Randy Murray, communications officer for the Diocese of New Westminster, which covers most of the southwestern B.C. mainland.
“There’s never been anything said about that (going to police),” Murray said on Wednesday, noting that he didn’t know why but that the bishops will address that issue. “There was nothing done.”
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