PENNSYLVANIA
Philly.com
Updated: JULY 14, 2016
by Maria Panaritis, STAFF WRITER
A onetime “altar boy of the year” who was raped by one of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s most notorious abuser priests said Archbishop Charles Chaput this week cancelled a face-to-face meeting with him because he told the media about it.
John Delaney, 45, said it would have been his first meeting with any top bishop, decades after first being raped at age 11 at St. Cecilia Parish in Northeast Philadelphia.
He said had planned to tell Chaput he was unhappy that the prelate helped defeat a measure that would have loosened the state statute of limitations on abuse cases, a change that victims had sought. Under pressure from church and insurance industry lobbyists, the Pennsylvania Senate late last month squelched the proposal.
“If [Chaput is] a guy who can stop a bill that can decide my fate,” Delaney said, “he should be able to sit in a room with me and be man enough to talk about it.”
He said he had expected to meet with Chaput Monday, July 18.
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