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Tribune-Review
BY JASON CATO | Monday, March 21, 2016
Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik stood Monday night at the pulpit inside St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland and begged for forgiveness of the sins of the Roman Catholic Church.
Lee Cabot sat in the front row to absorb the words he had waited to hear for most of his life. In the 1970s, a Bellevue priest wrongly interpreted church rules and punished his late mother after her husband abandoned the family, he said.
“Because of what he did, our whole family fell apart,” said Cabot, 47, of Oakland.
Cabot clutched a framed photograph of his mother, Marianne Liptak, who died in 2002.
“My mother never returned to the altar until the day she died,” Cabot said. “She died thinking she was a disgraced Catholic.”
Zubik hosted a special “Prayer Service for Apology” as part of the Jubilee Year of Mercy called upon by Pope Francis.
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