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By Steve Gilhooley
Edinbugh Evening News [United Kingdom]
October 6, 2006
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1480542006
In August 2004 I took a year out from my position as parish priest of Currie, Balerno and Ratho in order to decide my future.
For a number of years up to then I had been suffering the consequences of going public about being abused by clergy at the junior seminary I had attended as a youngster.
Up to that point I have to say that the priesthood for me had been incredible and had taken me down paths I did not expect.
Towards the end of the last millennium I was writing a weekly column for the Evening News, commenting on sport, writing for the Catholic Observer, presenting Thought for the Day for BBC Radio, View from Earth for Radio Forth, script-writing for On and Off the Ball with Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove and speaking at numerous events - all during the same period.
At the same time I