When he saw her appear in a madapollam nightshirt and with her hair loose over her shoulders, the decrepit parish priestthought that it was a trick and sent the altar boy away.
A grand jury report on the sexual abuse of children by clergy in 6 Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses identified more than 1000 victims abused by more than 300 priests over a period of decades.
After they had gone he sat down at the table, still trembling with unaccustomed indignation, and took up a pile of reports which had been sent in to him by the parish priests of his diocese.
So small a matter as the appointment of a parish priest, occasioned almost always a violent contest, not only in one parish, but in all the neighbouring parishes who seldom failed to take part in the quarrel.