Father Dan Reehil

So I blame the bishops.

you know, they could have prevented this.

And I'm not gonna make any excuse from it at all because like one kid is enough to say, no, we're not gonna let that happen again.

But right here in Franklin, I mean, there was just a priest removed a few months ago.

So it's still not completely over.

And you gotta go back to the seminaries and say, you gotta have better detection systems when somebody is open to this sort of sexual behavior.

There has to be a way to screen it.

There has to be.

When I was first coming, when I first came back to the faith, I found a priest in New York who I really liked.

He was a Franciscan friar, the renewal, Father Benedict Rochelle.

He also was a psychiatrist.

And he told me he'd interviewed probably a thousand priests who did these things to kids, usually in prison.

And what he noticed with all of them is they had stopped praying.

He would just say, when did you stop praying your office, the bravery?

It's the one prayer we have to pray every day.

We don't have to say mass every day, but we have to pray this set of prayers.

It's the only promise we take is to do that, and obedience to our bishop.

And they would all say, how did you know?

And he said, because I've been interviewing you guys for years now, and it's the common denominator.

Now, that doesn't take away the problem.