My Father was Not a Pedophile

Stephanie Cenedella
6 min readSep 25, 2018

By Stephanie Cenedella

Dad and Me, June 1995

The Catholic Church has been turned upside down with stories of sexual abuse in the past decade, most recently questions have risen as to the likelihood that Pope Francis had knowledge of seminarians being abused yet covered it up to protect the already injured faith group. Conservative groups have labeled the overall problem, reduced the issue as: gay priests molesting young altar boys

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