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Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer of WWL Louisiana in New Orleans

Survivors of New Orleans clergy abuse weigh forgiveness in court: ‘It destroyed my faith in God’

a person holding a cross
‘The church I grew up in didn’t protect me and [continued] to protect their own,’ said Kathleen Austin, who testified in federal court on Tuesday. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

Some who spoke in federal court on Tuesday about being victimized in the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans’s enduring child molestation saga had forgiven. Others had not.

None had forgotten, even decades later.

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