LOS ANGELES (CA)
Los Angeles Times
August 26, 2018
By Soumya Karlamangla and Victoria Kim
Olivia Vela sat in the courtyard of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Sunday as she waited for the 10 a.m. Mass to begin. After a decades-long absence, she said she returned to the church a year and a half ago after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Vela said she is now in recovery and started attending services again because she is so grateful to be alive.
But the 52-year-old nurse is still struggling to reconcile her beliefs with the sex abuse scandals that continue to plague the Catholic Church and the latest news that Pope Francis may have knowingly hid allegations about the now-disgraced American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop in Washington.
“I’m trying to come back. I’m trying to come back,” Vela said, sounding weary.
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