text: Congratulations on your new position! 
  
  The most important issue I have is making sure if you hear ANY complaints about possible sexual abuse you investigate them thoroughly and from the victim's side. Don't assume the accused is innocent and involved the authorities ASAP. There is too much of a sexual abuse cover up culture in the Catholic Church, and the safety of your members is paramount above all. Alaska has the highest abuse rates in the country, so take this seriously and protect your congregation over your priest and reputation. Sexual predators do not stop, they are not able to be "rehabilitated" so moving them around and keeping it quiet makes you just as guilty as if you were the abuser yourself. God is a God of love, truth and accountability, there is no "forgiving and forgetting", no "turning of the cheek" for sexual offenders. 
  
  With that, I wish you the best, do right by your children in the church. We all need a higher power to believe in, whatever it is.