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26 October 2018

‘My life was ruined’: A Catholic Church sexual abuse protest that has lasted 20 years

There’s a honk. And then a thumbs-up. A wave, another thumbs-up. A flash-flash of headlights. Honk! Honk! “This is a good day,” declared protester John Wojnowski, who has been a fixture outside the Vatican’s U.S. mission in Northwest Washington for more than two decades. When he began trying to tell the world about sex abuse in the Catholic Church — and about what he says a priest did to him when he was 15 — there were a lot of bad days. There was silence. And stares.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/my-life-was-ruined-a-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-protest-that-has-lasted-20-years/2018/10/25/3429ad30-d861-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2d4d6d6a1a3a