CANADA
Calgary Herald
Meghan Potkins, Calgary Herald
When Brian was a teenager, he attended the funeral of a man he says sexually abused him for months.
He sat in St. Mary’s Cathedral in January of 1983, for the special funeral mass presided over by the bishop: a solemn occasion befitting the untimely death of a much-loved priest.
“It was huge. Everyone in full regalia, and I was just one little person in this whole church,” recalls Brian.
“They saw him as a saint.”
On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in Calgary court against a religious order of the Catholic church, alleging decades-old sexual abuse at the hands of a Calgary priest and teacher at Bishop Grandin High School that left a former Calgary resident permanently scarred.
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