THIS is like affirmative-action time for victims,” says one frustrated Catholic priest. “The attitude seems to be that because the Church discriminated against victims [of clergy sexual abuse] in the past, they should make up for it by discriminating against priests now. Whatever happened to justice?”
Well might he ask. Take the case of an African priest who until recently was living and studying in the Washington, D.C., area. His story represents just one example of the kind of accusations to which any priest in this country is vulnerable in the present scandal-charged atmosphere.
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