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Healing Garden

Survivor-led ‘National Healing Garden’ seeks to acknowledge wounds of abuse

"We have to meet the survivors where they’re at."

Laura Loker
Feb 01, 2025
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Mike Hoffman was married with children and active in his Chicago parish when a 2006 news article caught his attention: A priest of the archdiocese was facing a lawsuit for alleged sexual abuse decades earlier.

Credit: Shutterstock / Life Collection Photography.

While other Catholics may have seen it as just one more distressing clergy abuse story, to Hoff…

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