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Thomas Plante, second from left, speaks during an Oct. 9 panel discussion titled "The Catholic Church and the Catastrophe of Clergy Sexual Abuse," at Santa Clara University in California. Other panelists were Fr. Brendan McGuire (left), who spoke of being abused as an 18-year-old; Santa Clara theologian Sally Vance-Trembath (second from right); and Jesuit Fr. Kevin O'Brien (right), dean of the Jesuit School of Theology. (NCR photo/Dan Morris-Young)
Thomas Plante, second from left, speaks during an Oct. 9 panel discussion titled "The Catholic Church and the Catastrophe of Clergy Sexual Abuse," at Santa Clara University in California. (NCR photo/Dan Morris-Young)