Supporters of a man who accused priests at St. Norbert Abbey of sexually abusing him gathered outside a Green Bay Catholic high school Sunday to call on state officials to pull back the curtain on clergy abuse in Wisconsin. 

The rally near Notre Dame Academy came two days before the family and friends of Nate Lindstrom will mark one year since he died by suicide on March 9, 2020. Lindstrom, a Notre Dame alumnus, said he endured abuse by three Norbertine priests in the 1980s while he worked for clergymen who often took him to the abbey swimming pool. 

He received $420,000 in secret payments from the De Pere-based abbey over 10 years until the order’s officials deemed his allegations not credible and stopped sending money, a Green Bay Press-Gazette investigation found.

“I wish things would have been different,” Lindstrom said in a text message to the Press-Gazette weeks before his death at age 45. “I…