“Unfathomable.” That’s the word Albert LeGatt, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Boniface, repeated multiple times last Friday during a prayer service that may have been the first of its kind across Canada — focusing on survivors of sexual assault committed by clergy.
“When I think of this whole reality of sexual abuse, that’s the word that comes to mind,” LeGatt told about 75 people at Christ the King Parish on St. Mary’s Road.
“When I hear stories from survivors and family members, I have a sense of the unfathomable. How could a person do that to another human being? To someone so little, whether that was by a priest, a parent, a coach, a teacher. How?” asked LeGatt.
LeGatt said it is beyond his understanding how the church was silent on the subject for so long, as it just wanted it “to go away, not deal with it.”
Read more about the service in the Free Press.
Photo above: Members of religious orders collect prayers during the service about survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
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