“The Rev. Neil Nichols, who was a young, newly ordained priest for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) in Elmhurst, Pa., when the sexual-abuse crisis first became public, said that because he wears his Roman collar in public while traveling across the country, he has gotten suspicious gazes in airports and restaurants.
“‘Being out in public and seeing a parent with a child,’ Father Nichols said, ‘you get the sense people look at you, look at the child, and say to themselves, “I’ll bet this priest is a pervert.”‘”
