text: This second story (centering on Gustafsen) pretty much sets this up for the church.  Here we have a priest who was an abuser, and wants to make things right.  So he and others decide  he should be at the center of the program.
  
  While that's certainly his right, it's ALSO the right of others to just walk away, to want no part of it.  That is a great example of the trust gap in the church today.  Sadly, for the most part, it's still the same old cadre of bishops running the church.  Somehow, there's been very little house cleaning, very little change.  
  
  The simple truth s that it's not the role of the abuser, the sinner, the one who inflicts injury on another, to tell victims how they should feel, act or move forward.  Can a sinner repent, and grow? Of course: the concept is at the core of Christianity itself. Should that same person have any rights over the injured party?  No.  
  
  This is what the bishops fail to see as they struggle to hang onto their control... I wish Gustavson well.