Biker Held a Knife to a Priest’s Throat in Front of the Whole Congregation

of him. We were eye to eye. I put the photograph on the altar between us and I tapped it.

“Tell them,” I said.

And he told them.

She had gone to him on a Wednesday afternoon after catechism class. She was eleven years old. She trusted priests because we had been raised to trust priests. Our mother used to say if you can’t tell a priest then you can’t continue reading …