In a period of time in which Marie Collins, clergy
sex abuse survivor, resigned her place on a Vatican commission
attempting to deal with new policies for dealing with clerical abuse,
the spotlight has returned to these issues with new focus. A priest who
resigned in frustration over mishandled abuse cases has now decided to
leave the priesthood entirely.
The former vicar general of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis
has left the priesthood, some 3 and a half years after his abrupt
resignation amid allegations that church officials mishandled the case
of a priest found with child pornography.