Despite Abuse, They Stayed in the Church

Elena received her fair share of faulty Catholic teaching as a child, never believing she was good enough … "so any imperfection must be willful on my part and therefore a sin …" "I learned not to trust my judgment on anything but to allow the priests and others in authority to usurp the role of my conscience and the role of God in my life."

Elena received her fair share of faulty Catholic teaching as a child, never believing she was good enough … "so any imperfection must be willful on my part and therefore a sin …" "I learned not to trust my judgment on anything but to allow the priests and others in authority to usurp the role of my conscience and the role of God in my life."…