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Benjamin Marshall's avatar

What a sad tale. Thanks be to God that Bp. Stika has experienced a measure of healing. As a priest who himself was abused, he could have been the face of forgiveness and healing from this section of the Church. He could have empathized with thousands of people. What a shame that he tells victims to get over it instead of being the “wounded healer” that he could have been.

“I myself was a victim of sexual abuse … and look at me” - not exactly the model of maturity and integration that he seems to think he is.

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Matthew K Michels, OblSB's avatar

Can I get 48 hours without a telenova-esque plot twist?

+Stika has an astounding ability to, given the opportunity, take any situation and say/do the worst possible thing. Sometimes, there's a humor in the unexpectedness of it all. Most of the time, it is an incredibly ugly, exhausting, and cringey thing to behold. At this point, for every new headline I see with +Stika's name attached, I'll be praying an act of reparation for whatever thing he's done/said that time - that's the only way I can proceed anymore.

Verdict: this man's social IQ is a temperate day in England. I am astounded that a seminary rector would have ever looked upon this man and said "yeah, he'd make a good pastor."

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