When the Iowa Attorney General's Office issued a report last year about sex abuse by Catholic clergy, it also publicized a hotline for people from any denomination to call with similar concerns about that taboo topic in their own places of worship.
Since March 21, seven calls have involved the 53-year-old Christ Apostolic Temple in Des Moines.
The calls follow online chatter about the November 2021 marriage of the church's thrice-divorced, 63-year-old bishop and pastor to a 19-year-old he had been offering special guidance to as dean of the church school.
