Father Paul Angelicchio, Pastor of St. John the Baptist Church and Transfiguration Church in Rome, NY was recently named in a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages for alleged sexual abuse during a time between 1980-1981. The Diocese of Syracuse is also named in the lawsuit.
A Healing Service for Victim-Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse will be held on Thursday, November 14, 7pm at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 1736 Burrstone Road, New Hartford. The service was planned by two victim-survivors of clergy sexual abuse. Dan Paden and Matt FitzGibbons, both survivors of abuse in the Diocese of Syracuse, have taken the lead in offering an approach of forgiveness and healing to the current issue of abuse.