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In this article, I will address the polarized reactions evoked by my roles as speaker, writer, advocate, and expert witness in the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis. The volleys of horror and awe, terror and transcendence, often characteristic of work with survivors of sexual abuse, are even more powerful when the evil reported was committed by sexually violating priests, the hierarchs who protected them, and the people in the pews who supported them.