Devout Catholic catalogues clergy's crimes, offers victims comfort

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Sylvia MacEachern's website go-to gathering place for church abuse victims

By Simon Gardner, CBC News
Posted: May 08, 2016 6:00 PM ET

Mike Fitzgerald is a 60-year-old truck driver who grew up on a farm near Bancroft, Ont.

It's with some trepidation that I ask him if we can meet at the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, a grand Catholic church located in Ottawa's ByWard Market. He readily agrees, but when I meet him and his wife Marla on the steps of the cathedral he admits to feeling uncomfortable.

"The good father destroyed my faith in the Catholic Church forever," he explains.

When I hear about what happened to Fitzgerald when he was a teenager in the early 1970s, his bitterness comes as no surprise.

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