IOWA CITY (IA)
Des Moines Register
An Iowa City group has produced a booklet of stories of alleged sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Diocese of Davenport.
Leaders of Concerned Catholics of the Davenport Diocese said that "Toward Hope and Understanding - Stories of Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Davenport Diocese" details the diocese's response to men who said they were abused as children.
"We love the church . . . but both the structures that fostered and covered this up need to be changed," said Dorothy Whiston, the booklet's editor. "It's often not until a survivor sees the name in print that they realize they weren't the only one and it wasn't their fault."
Bishop William Franklin said, "I hope that their work . . . can help victims in their process of healing."
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