SPRINGFIELD (MA)
The Republican
March 26, 2019
By Anne-Gerard Flynn
A Prayer Service for Healing to show “solidarity” with victims of clergy sex abuse will be held Sunday, April 7, at 2 p.m at St. Michael’s Cathedral, 254 State St.
The service is part of Springfield Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski’s efforts announced in February to hold dialogue and prayer sessions as a “sign of our collective commitment to victims that we are truly sorry for our church’s past failure and remain steadfast in our ongoing efforts to prevent any future abuse.”
A similar service will be held the same day and time at St. Joseph Church in Pittsfield.
Rozanski held four “listening and dialogue” sessions around the issue of clergy abuse of minors in the diocese with the first Feb. 6 at Mary, Mother of Hope Parish, and the three others at parishes in Pittsfield, Westfield and concluding March 24 in Northampton.
More than a dozen attorneys general around the country are said to be investigating or reviewing claims of clergy abuse in the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report in August that found “credible” allegations against more than 300 “predator priests” in Pennsylvania who were said to have sexually abused more than 1,000 children in cases going back to the 1940s.
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