Bishop says sexual abuse didn't define his life

Here's a Detroit News interview with Detroit Bishop Gumbleton where he says the recently admitted sexual abuse he suffered as a seminarian did not define his life.

B ishop Thomas Gumbleton, who stepped forward last week to describe being molested by a priest when he was a teenager, was shaped by the passions and shames of a long-ago era.

But not as you might expect.

When the Detroit auxiliary bishop testified in support of Ohio legislation that would allow abuse victims a longer statute of limitations, he revealed a secret he had held for decades, even while the issue of pedophilia in the church raged. The story -- of a young seminary student preyed upon by a priest and teacher -- might seem to explain, at least in part, Gumbleton's compassion for the downtrodden over the course of his adult life.