INDIANA
Crux
March 7, 2020
Father John Hollowell cried as he sat in the confessional of St. Paul the Apostle Church in Greencastle.
It was the summer of 2018 – a time when the tragedy of clergy sexual abuse surfaced again through government investigations and media reports.
Hollowell cried as he thought of the suffering of abuse victims across several decades.
From these tears came a prayer. Hollowell asked God to let him bear a cross on behalf of the victims of clergy sexual abuse.
About 18 months later, it would seem that prayer was answered. After having several fainting spells and spasms in 2019, Hollowell was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota earlier this month with a brain tumor.
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