WASHINGTON (DC)
Patheos
September 6, 2018
By Linda LaScola
Hello, Everyone – Welcome to September and the end of our rousing Vacation Bible School. We had a good time recasting and discussing some of the Bible stories we knew so well as children. Now it’s time to get serious.
While the VBS series was running, and while I was off on a cool and wonderful vacation to Nova Scotia, the Catholic Church was having another pedophilia scandal. I suppose many of you were following it, possibly as closely as I was. But it had special meaning for me.
Though I have never personally been touched by any scandals in the Catholic Church, I recently learned that three of the parishes my family belonged to while I was growing up had pedophile priests who were removed – and moved around to other parishes. You see, I was born and raised and educated in Pennsylvania – the scene of the latest scandal, made public by Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania Attorney General.
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