ST. PAUL (MN)
Religion News Service via Crux
March 12, 2019
By Maria Wiering
Father Kevin Finnegan said he didn’t know what to expect when he arrived at St. Peter in Mendota.
The pastor of Our Lady of Grace in Edina was responding to an invitation Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda had extended to priests of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis: to join him for an evening to reflect on the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
But Finnegan was grateful he went.
With about 80 other priests, he listened to presentations from a clergy abuse survivor and his mother. Both shared how the experience affected their Catholic faith and suggested ways priests can better help other survivors.
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