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William Tone's avatar

Thank God for The Pillar. Excruciatingly tough to read, and I'll need some extra prayer time to keep this anger from festering into hatred, but we absolutely need these stories told because otherwise nothing will change. Along with the direct victims, I pray especially for all the good priests who will forever fall under our suspicion because how in the world can we trust seminaries that are still letting guys like this slip through.

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God bless this family. Wow. God bless this mom. I love her so much she just wants her son to feel peaceful to go to Mass and be with Jesus... that is always what I feel for abuse victims because so many are so hurt and have feelings of aversion and God loves them and I and others want to be united with them in the Eucharist. God bless her sons. I am a catechist and have also told kids not only "don't look at pictures of naked people" but "don't take naked pictures"... it feels like such a weird, gross thing to say since a lot of kids would NOT think of something like that (this boy victimized by Fr McWilliams didn't plan on it either till a wrongful request was made), but that boy's words make me feel I should say that to this year's class (middle schoolers) when we have our "safe environment lesson." you don't want to suggest things to kids' minds. God bless the writer of this article too, it is so sensitively written that it would not harm children I don't think. It's a painful story, I cried, but what I mean is it avoids gratuitous detail.

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