This essay is adapted from a speech by Dominican Fr. Tom
Doyle at the 2014 annual convention of the Survivors Network of those
Abused by Priests. It has been edited here for length. The full text of
the speech appears in a recently published biography, Whistle: Tom Doyle’s Steadfast Witness for Victims of Clerical Sexual Abuse, by Robert Blair Kaiser and now available at Amazon and Kindle.
“A letter sent by the vicar general of the diocese of Lafayette, La.,
to the papal nuncio in June 1984 was the trigger that set in motion a
series of events that has changed the fate of the victims of child
sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and clergy of all denominations.https://voicefaithful.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/how-clergy-abuse-survivors-have-changed-history-national-catholic-reporter/