Survivor of clerical abuse: Stop praying for us and start taking action

6 years ago
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As Pope Francis prepared to convene a global bishops' conference addressing the issue of clerical sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati on Friday held a series of special Masses for congregants to pray for victims. As far as David Frondorf, one of more than two dozen men who accused now-defrocked priest Lawrence Strittmatter of sexually abusing them as children, is concerned, the latter is a gesture as "lovely" and well-intentioned as it is unhelpful.

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