Catholic Church Pays for Sexual Abuse Victim’s Psilocybin Therapy in Oregon

Chuck Lovett grew up in a very Catholic family in Altoona, Pennsylvania. His uncle had two pictures hanging in his house: one of John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president of the United States, and another of James Hogan, bishop of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.

Lovett met Hogan when he was around 12. He and other boys visited a seminary in nearby Loretto to learn about life in the clergy. As part of the introduction, they swam with priests in the seminary’s pool. In the locker room, Father Francis McCaa molested him.

“While that was happening, Bishop Hogan was sitting there pleasuring himself,” Lovett says.

Now 63, Lovett has been grappling with that trauma ever since. In 2019, the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese offered him $10,000 to be used for therapy within 10 years. Lovett had an