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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom is 81 and we are Catholic. She has always been kind of erratic in her adherence to religion and goes to mass in spurts. She won’t go for years and then goes weekly. Right now her parish, like many, is in the midst of a ton of change and she has health struggles so she is in a phase of being mad at church/god.

I live far away and just found out that one of the only priests that she and my late dad liked or trusted once us kids were out of the house was just added to one of the archdiocese’s lists of clergy accused of abuse.

Do I tell my mom? On one hand, it would validate a lot of her frustrations and anger toward the church. On the other hand, I think it would take away some of the only happy memories she had while my dad went through a prolonged terminal illness- the priest made frequent visits and handled all of the sacraments at the end. She would be devastated to stumble into that information. [b]She’s a frequent late-night googler so she will find it eventually.
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(I’m almost wondering if she knows and is keeping it from me?!)[/quote]

Let her find it. She can than handle that info anyway she wants.[/quote]

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