As science and scandal emerged, many stopped putting their faith in the church The spectre of Mount Cashel loomed large in my late childhood, both literally and figuratively.
My family moved to St. John's from the west coast of Newfoundland when I was eight years old. It was October 1989, and a judicial inquiry's hearings on the allegations of child abuse by the Christian Brothers had begun only one month earlier.
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