BOSTON (MA)
The Patriot Ledger
Posted Jan 28, 2013
By Lane Lambert
BRAINTREE —
The Boston Archdiocese has appointed a Weymouth woman to be the new director of the office that provides counseling to survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their families.
Vivian Soper will become director of the Office of Pastoral Support and Outreach in February. She’ll succeed the office’s longtime director Barbara Thorp.
The Archdiocese announced Soper’s appointment Monday afternoon.
Soper has been a Catholic Charities regional director since 2003, and has worked for the agency since 1986.
She’s the sister of Rev. Paul Soper, who’s pastor of St. Albert the Great parish in Weymouth and director of the Archciocese’s pastoral planning commission.
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