Survivor: Catholic sex abuse was ‘a test from God’

ELON – Joan Sullivan raises her hand. “Excuse me,” she says. “I’m very well into years and I have found, this last 10 years in my life, I have lost my faith and it’s been based on this.” The “this” she refers to is sexual abuse by clergymen in the Roman Catholic Church, and she’s addressing Robert Orsi, a prominent historian of U.S. Catholicism who’s just delivered a lecture titled, “Violence, Memory and Religion among Survivors of Clerical Sexual Abuse” in Elon University’s LaRose Digital Theatre Wednesday, April 3.

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