OREGON
The Oregonian
By Melissa Binder | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on August 23, 2015
It had taken years to get comfortable in the church.
Now this.
“I am sorry beyond words for the pain and the anguish that you have been suffering,” the archbishop said, scanning the silent crowd. “You need to hear that again: I am sorry.”
Heartache hung in the air. Peter Hainley watched the archbishop skeptically from the back row of pews, his wife and three sons by his side.
Hainley was abused by a priest at 12 years old, he said. Now his youngest son is 11 and the priest at St. Francis Catholic Church in Sherwood is wanted for allegedly placing a hidden camera in a church bathroom.
“I’m so disillusioned right now,” he said, shaking his head.
His wife, Leocadia Hainley, patted his chest. “It’s too much,” she said.
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