WASHINGTON (DC)
BBC
February 6, 2018
By Owen Amos
John Wojnowski was abused by a priest during a Latin lesson 60 years ago. He has spent the past two decades protesting outside the Vatican Embassy in Washington DC. What keeps him going?
The most surprising thing about this protester is – he doesn’t want to protest.
He doesn’t want to spend eight hours a day on public transport, waiting for buses and trains, getting to and from Embassy Row in Washington DC.
He doesn’t want to hold his sign in the cold, and the dark, and the snow, and the rain.
He doesn’t want his face to freeze, his knees to ache, his fingers to turn numb.
He was 54 when the protest started; he turns 75 in April. He has spent almost a third of his life here, on his own, holding a sign outside the Vatican Embassy.
“Of course I want to stop,” he says. “But they made it personal.”
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