CALIFORNIA
Ventura County Star
[Donald Roemer – Los Angeles archdiocese]
By Colleen Cason
Posted February 9, 2013
It is said God is in the details. Or is it the devil?
You can decide for yourself now that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has released 12,000 pages of personnel files of priests accused of molesting children.
I read one file cover to cover, that of former priest Donald Patrick Roemer. Known as Father Pat, he served at St. Paschal Baylon Church in Thousand Oaks during the early 1980s. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a parishioner at St. Paschal’s. I’ll say a bit about that later.
It’s all there in Roemer’s 903-page file: Church leaders covering up for and coddling a priest while ignoring his victims, moving him to another parish while he professed sexual attraction to young boys.
But there is something else none of us could imagine today — the rage some parishioners turned on his victims.
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