KANSAS CITY (MO)
Kansas City Star
BY MARY SANCHEZ
msanchez@kcstar.com
Nearly incomprehensible suffering preceded where the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph will humbly place itself on Sunday.
The diocese seeks reconciliation.
The new bishop, installed last fall, will make a public apology for decades of sexual abuse committed by diocesan priests.
Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. will lead a Service of Lament at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Johnston has asked every priest in the diocese to attend. He has requested that they bring purple vestments, a sign of penance.
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