text: "We bishops have heard a great deal about the sorrow and pain...." 
  
  I wonder if the dear bishops have ever heard about the complicity of the militant,  conservative laity in marginalizing those who  courageously  continue to tell their own stories of sexual abuse as well as to be advocates for the abused.  The social dynamics of the average Catholic parish "happy family" lend themselves  to re crucifying Christ by treating former victims as anathema, watch dogging and containing them so as to keep them from "contaminating" other parishioners. This has happened to me more than once.  May I urge those of you who, like myself, have experienced this type of persecution to stay the course and, like the victims of the Holocaust, continue to tell your stories especially in your parishes. To what end? In the eternal hope  that this hideous evil in our midst may NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!