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Jessica Carney's avatar

JD and Ed, I just want to say thanks for being yourselves and bringing such a helpful, healthy, balanced perspective to your Catholic reporting. Serious but not sensationalist, orthodox but not reactionary, charitable but not blind. Even just reading these other comments, I am struck by how much you guys have to wade through, in terms of right-versus-left pet causes and complaints. I just really, really, really appreciate The Pillar. I'm subscribed for as long as you're in business (hopefully decades, God willing!).

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Fr. Scott Bailey, C.Ss.R.'s avatar

Blaming Fr. Shelton is reprehensible of NBC. The fear of retaliation for speaking out is very real. The desire to just move in and never speak of it is very real. Especially if when you do speak out you are not believed and are blamed when you are the victim. I know. I am a religious priest who was the victim of one of my “brother” priests. When I went to my superior I wasn’t believed. I was accused of causing scandal. Blaming the victim is sick and twisted, especially doing it to get digs in against the Church as Corky Siemaszko of NBC was clearly doing. Talk about a hack journalist.

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