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Top of the morning to you, everybody:
It’s the feast of St. Patrick, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. I’ll get to that in a minute.
But first, I’d like to ask for your prayers.
After a battle with cancer, my friend Gina Barthel died this morning.
Gina was a nurse, one of the funniest of the people I know, and a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ.
She was also a survivor of clerical sexual abuse.
In fact, I met her first in 2019, during the height of the McCarrick scandal and everything which came after it.
She reached out to me because she wanted to share her story. But most important, Gina said then, she wanted to share with other survivors a message that was hard won for her: That people hurt in the Church could find healing in the Church.
And as bishops faced consistent criticism and mistrust in those months after McCarrick, Gina wanted to talk with me about a
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