This man is one of my heroes. For the last 14-15 years, John Wojnowski has protested outside the Vatican’s US embassy, seeking reparations for sexual abuse victims like himself. His signs have been vandalized by priests and he’s been spit upon by an aide to the Vatican’s ambassador to the United States. Still, sunny days, cold days, nearly every day he’s there on the corner with his banners.
“Wojnowski sees himself as a David: a righteous nobody at war with a colossus. He described himself to me variously as a cripple, a failure, a weakling, a naif. The forces in league against him, by contrast, were malevolent, arrogant, cowardly, parasitic.
“I’m a poor, ignorant peasant fighting this global institution,” he says. “If a person has a drop of honor, he cannot give up.””
via The Passion of John Wojnowski – Washingtonian.com
Further reading:
– Christian Priests Convicted for Sexual Abuse
– Database of Publicly Accused Priests in the United States