By Gene Thomas Gomulka
If I grew up in a home in which I witnessed my father abusing my mother, might I, after I marry, likewise be abusive toward my wife? So many of our problems as adults stem from childhood experiences. While some people become alcoholics after being raised in a home where one or both parents were addicted to alcohol, other people, traumatized by that childhood experience, never touch a drop of alcohol. This pattern also applies to clerics, including popes, bishops, and priests, who were sexually groomed/abused before they were ordained, often in Roman Catholic seminaries.
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