text: Andrew: Thank you for your post. I can imagine how difficult it is for you to watch this pillar of the Church continue to deny what he did to you and many others. Denial was the first response, victims like you and I met when we started to tell our stories. Denial remains the foremost response that victims still meet. Priests don't sexually abuse children, we were told many years ago. Even today many still believe that it never happened. When a fellow victim, resigned from the Pope's  commission, she cited the fact that the Church would not even respond to victim's letters written to the Vatican about their abuse. In some ways a response would have acknowledged the abuse. To remain in denial has always been their response.