Identity Lost

Quote of the Day: Former Nun Mary Dispenza

"Everything that I knew, all my identity, was wrapped up in the church in one way or another. I was just lost. I felt we both lost: the church lost me and I lost the church. And we both had invested a lot in each other for all those years."

-- Mary Dispenza, 67, a former nun who expects to receive $1.33 million of the $60 million settlement by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in a class action suit involving clergy sex abuse. Quoted by the Associated Press, Dispenza said she is haunted by the memory of being molested by a pedophile priest as a young girl.