The scourge of child sex abuse within the Catholic Church has been well documented. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ) is now renewing calls that the Archdiocese of Washington release the names of known, hidden abusers. It’s a message Dan Ronan — a survivor of child sex abuse at the hands of a priest — echoes. On the show, Ronan tells his story of how Father Thomas Gannon sexually abused him as an 11-year-old boy in Chicago. He also talks about why Gannon wasn’t punished for this alleged assault and later became a respected professor at Georgetown University. Ronan walks us through this trauma and shares how he ultimately found peace 50 years later.
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After 50 years, a victim of clergy sex abuse speaks out
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