“She was confirmed (she was never a practicing Catholic). Went to ________ to finishing schooling (PHD). She met a young priest (35 she was 28), got close to him and for about 7 months had an affair with him (slept with him).
In 2007 (to “run away” form the situation) she came back we started talking (I didn’t know all this) and we started dating in 2008. On May 19th she told me everything about her past, not only this affair but her other relationships (9 others) and she’s had an abortion. It was huge and it took me awhile to digest.”
“As revolting and destructive as the sexual abuse issue is, it is the exercise of ecclesiastical office with respect to upholding the teaching and laws of the Church that is more closely related to the work of the Saint Joseph Foundation. After all, in almost twenty-four years of existence, the Foundation has received only a handful of complaints related to sexual abuse, while we have received thousands of complaints alleging deficient or erroneous teaching, violations of liturgical norms and the abusive exercise of the ministry of governance. Using the very limited amount of data available, I will try here to give our readers some idea of what has happened whenever bishops’ performance in these areas has been called into question.”
