Sunday, 4 March 2012

BISHOP REVEALS `YEAR OF HORRENDOUS PAIN'.(MAIN)

Byline: ANDREW TILGHMAN Staff writer

Albany In an interview with the diocesan newspaper, Bishop Howard Hubbard spoke in depth the first time this year about the sexual abuse scandal.

``It's been a year of horrendous pain. Pain in realizing more fully how deeply victims have been hurt and their families affected,'' Hubbard said in an extensive interview with The Evangelist Editor James Breig. The weekly paper, with a circulation of more than 56,000, was distributed Thursday.

The bishop discussed the toll the 14-month scandal had taken on ``the members of our faith community'' and on himself. He said he had lost 25 pounds, and he lamented the …

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