Episodes 32
Avg. Duration 40m
Activity Sporadic
Since Jan 2021
Latest Episode May 2025

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About This Podcast

Sacrificed is a survivor's eye view of the Catholic sex abuse crisis that picks up where SPOTLIGHT left off, answering the question, "And then what happened?" Hosted by survivor Chris O'Leary, Sacrificed explores his efforts to get help from the Archdiocese of St. Louis, the Catholic Church, and the Pope. Efforts that, despite the PA grand jury report and VOS ESTIS, proved fruitless. It's a story many Catholics won't want to hear, but must be told. Because, if the Catholic Church can do what it's done to survivors, what else can it justify doing? Rationalize? To innocent children most of all.

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Recent Episodes

Pope Francis, Pope Leo & Abuse: BBC World Service

May 11, 2025 9m

Survivors of the Catholic sex abuse crisis Chris O'Leary & Tony Gribben discuss Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV, the catholic sex abuse crisis and the reality for survivors with BBC OS from World…

Comments on Pope Leo XIV for BBC World Service (RAW)

May 09, 2025 4m

Some comments about new Pope Leo XIV by Chris O'Leary, a survivor of the Catholic sex abuse crisis, originally recorded for the BBC World Service.Reproduction, excerpting ALLOWED, no permission…

Special Training (The Ugly Truth) Explained TRAILER

Oct 04, 2024 4m Trailer

Catholic survivor Chris O'Leary explains his painting, Special Training (The Ugly Truth), which discusses how his sexual abuse by a Priest happened and what it was like.

Fear

Oct 30, 2023 32m

I was watching the movie The Shining the other day. The controversy about the movie -- Stephen King hated it, in part because it twisted Jack's motivation and emotions -- got me thinking about what…

Wicked, Evil & MFTC

Oct 24, 2023 40m

The musical Wicked asks a question about the nature of evil. “Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?” But does Wicked get it right? I have thoughts about that question,…

Bishop Stika, AotA & John Doe(s)

Jun 29, 2023 1h 17m

Bishop Richard Rick Stika, the Bishop of Knoxville, the man whose Cathedral I've been standing vigil out front of, for more than a year, has resigned. Which, juxtaposed with a HORRIBLE discovery I…

I Got Sick

Jun 18, 2023 53m

Father's Day has me thinking about how to explain what happened to me to my kids. So, perhaps, they'll start speaking to me again. If they know I didn't abandon them. Instead, I got sick.

Catholic Children REMAIN in DANGER

Mar 31, 2023 5m

For all the happy talk, and all the P.R., Catholic children REMAIN in DANGER. Because, while some things have changed, one thing has not. The hierarchy. The Bishops. Men like My Friend The Cardinal.

The Test

Jan 20, 2023 16m

Why have Catholic cardinals so often crossed paths -- and, in some cases, like My Friend The Cardinal and Cardinal Pell, at least, LIVED -- with the worst abusers in the church?

Seasoned Pastor

Dec 28, 2022 17m

Imagine my HORROR at realizing a phrase and concept from my own story of abuse by a Catholic priest in the late 1970s is STILL a thing in 2022.

The Program LIVES ON

Dec 13, 2022 10m

I assumed The Program was a problem of the past. Of the 1970s. I was wrong.

Stika Resign Now Rally

Nov 01, 2022 18m

Catholic survivor Chris O'Leary's comments at the "Bishop Rick Stika Resign Now" rally held in Knoxville, Tennessee, on October 30, 2022.

Angry Catholic Show 4.2.22

Apr 04, 2022 48m

13. My GREAT, basically PERFECT conversation with Kris and Paul from the Angry Catholic Show podcast On April 2, 2022. The content and topic are so important, and the episode has been so well…

Stika, The Seminarian & SLU

Mar 28, 2022 55m

12. The Catholic Church wants you to believe it is Contrite and things have Changed. However, the actions of Bishop Rick Stika of Knoxville, the case of The Seminarian, and the the cross state and…

The Way OUT is THRU

Nov 13, 2021 34m

11. The way out of the crisis is NOT to avoid the problems in the Catholic Church, but to confront them. That starts with the bishops, who refuse to change.

Stika, Predation & Change

Aug 08, 2021 1h 26m

10. What's changed? Very little in terms of predation, and the tolerance of it, as is made clear by cases of seminarians tied to both Bishop Rick Stika of Knoxville and Pope Francis himself.

Fr. Mark Talk Combined +Q&A

Jul 16, 2021 2h 1m

Fr. Mark White Talk (Combined) with Question and Answer Session In late June 2021, I gave two talks about the Catholic sex abuse crisis, and its aftermath, to supporters of Fr. Mark White, a…

Fr. Mark White Interview

Jul 12, 2021 44m Bonus

Catholic sex abuse survivor Chris O'Leary interviews Fr. Mark White, a Catholic priest from Virginia who is to survivors what Fr. James Martin is to LGBT Catholics, and who is being run out of the…

Fr. Mark Talk II June 28, 2021

Jul 04, 2021 1h 36m Bonus

On June 28, 2021, in Martinsville, VA, I gave the SECOND of two talks to a  group of concerned Catholics and supporters of Fr. Mark White -- a  Catholic priest who is to survivor Catholics what Fr.…

Fr. Mark Talk I June 27, 2021

Jul 02, 2021 1h 7m Bonus

On June 27, 2021, in Martinsville, VA, I gave the first of two talks to a group of concerned Catholics and supporters of Fr. Mark White -- a Catholic priest who is to survivor Catholics what Fr.…

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