"Ex-monk, who served as 'fixer' after parish scandals, now helps abuse victims sue church ... By Deborah Hastings ... AP National Writer ... COSTA MESA, Calif. -- He liked the job at first. His superiors liked him. He was 26, he was moving fast, and he was doing God's work.But by the time he had taken over his fourth parish in four years, he realized he wasn't doing God's work at all. He was doing the bidding of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. And those two things, in his mind, were not remotely the same. ... As a Benedictine monk, Patrick Wall cleaned up and covered up the sins of priests -- pastors who were quietly transferred when their sexual and financial trespasses threatened to ignite public scandal. "
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