Winona’s bishop has callously rubbed salt into the already-deep and
still-fresh wounds of abuse victims by deliberately and disingenuously
minimizing the pain and vulnerability of a teenaged girl who was
repeatedly abused by a priest who was counseling her.
First, Quinn uses the word “misconduct,” a deliberately vague word that minimizes the horror of what Colletti did. A powerful, well-educated priest abused his position, authority and trust by sexually manipulating, abusing and exploiting a devout teenaged girl who sought counseling because she was already suffering. She’d been raised since birth to consider priests holy, trustworthy, celibate men who could forgive her sins and get her into heaven. So Colletti’s actions were abusive and devastating.
http://www.snapnetwork.org/mn_victims_blast_bishop_over_abuse_remarks
First, Quinn uses the word “misconduct,” a deliberately vague word that minimizes the horror of what Colletti did. A powerful, well-educated priest abused his position, authority and trust by sexually manipulating, abusing and exploiting a devout teenaged girl who sought counseling because she was already suffering. She’d been raised since birth to consider priests holy, trustworthy, celibate men who could forgive her sins and get her into heaven. So Colletti’s actions were abusive and devastating.
http://www.snapnetwork.org/mn_victims_blast_bishop_over_abuse_remarks