[ilovemyglo]

I live in Louisville as most of you know.
This is the city with the most sexual molestion charges against priest, and the number one priest is Father Louis Miller.

This is also a close family friend.
My brother considered becoming a priest in high school and spoke with Father Miller.
He was at our house for dinner after we had it built and blessed it
He was at my high school graduation party and blessed me.
He spent many nights and days working side by side with my family at our parish.
I was alone with him dozens of times. My brothers were alone with as much as I was.
My parents received counsel from him on making changes in their lives and he renewed my mother's faith in God after the death of her father.
This man was a wonderful friend to my family. We called him on every holiday and he called us all the time to say hello. When I answered the phone I always smiled knowing it was Father Miller. He was always a good man to us and around us. I loving person that I considered a role model for all priests.
It is so hard to reconcile this with myself because I remember Father being sent away from our parish to work at a nursing home and he told me that he retired from weddings but he would commit to presiding at my wedding.

I know that most of the allegations must be true, and they even published part of his journal in the newspaper. It is so hard to deal with because we trusted him so much. The abuse stopped someone around 1990 but still... we had no clue.

I have learned that you never really know someone until you know their skeletons and those are hard to find!