NEW YORK
WWNY
[with video]
They’re trying to clean and dress the wounds they caused.
Thousands of cases of sexual abuses by members of Catholic clergy have come to light over the past few decades.
To help heal those wounds, Bishop Terry LaValley of the Diocese of Ogdensburg says he’s taking cues from Pope Francis, who calls for the Catholic Church to be a field hospital for those who are hurting.
“How can this local field hospital, really, tend to the wounds that the church itself has inflicted upon our own?”
One way: Bishop LaValley is presiding over a special “Healing Mass.”
“It’s the Mass, but the Mass with the focus of Divine mercy, and our own sinfulness, and our own failings,” he said.
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