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Father John Feit

I debated on adding the word “Father” in the title of this one for a few reasons. For one, John Feit left the priesthood in the early 1970's and went on to marry and have children. Secondly, I fear that by adding that title people will take that title as a slight to the Catholic religion. But, John Feit was a priest when the crime occurred and he is still most known using that term despite no longer being a priest. Before I go much further I would like to make clear that while the crime itself has gained more notoriety based on the fact that it involved a priest, among other reasons, I personally do not necessarily believe this is against the Catholic Church themselves. I realize that there are those who argue that the “higher ups” in the church did little when it came to crimes in which their members were involved with and obviously either ignored or covered up things. But, in my opinion I believe that shows more of the character of the person that did the covering u...