Survivor-led ‘National Healing Garden’ seeks to acknowledge wounds of abuse
"We have to meet the survivors where they’re at."
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.
While other Catholics may have seen it as just one more distressing clergy abuse story, to Hoff…

