P.A. Diocese to focus on victims of abuse
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert is focusing on the victims of abuse during special church services Tuesday.
The move comes in light of sexual abuse claims about the prominent Cardinal in Pennsylvania Theodore McCarrick who resigned over the allegations last month.
“Wherever a sexual abuse has happened in the church it should affect all of us,” Albert Thévenot, the Bishop of Prince Albert told paNOW. “We are part of a family of families, so when a brother is suffering we are all suffering, and that’s what we have to feel.”
Thévenot said as part of the Feast of St. Augustine, members of the church could celebrate the Eucharist with an hour of adoration for the victims of abuse and for the entire sexual situation. The services would occur at various times Tuesday depending on the specific church.