OREGON
The Oregonian
By Bryan Denson, The Oregonian
A high-ranking official with the Archdiocese of Portland will formally apologize to an Oregon woman later this month for the sexual abuse she endured as a child in the 1980s at the hands of a Roman Catholic priest.
Monsignor Dennis O’Donovan, the vicar general of the archdiocese, will apologize from the pulpit of St. John the Apostle Parish in Reedsport on Aug. 26, according to Portland lawyer Gilion C. Dumas, who represented the victim in a lawsuit against the diocese and the Rev. Edward Alstock.
The public apology, which O’Donovan will make on behalf of Archbishop John Vlazny, is a rarity, Dumas said.
“As far as we know,” she said, “this is the first time that they are going to make a public apology in the parish where the abuse occurred.”
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