Children of priests also question whether they were mistreated by their fathers and the church.
He was a 24-year-old seminarian from a blue-collar family. She was an idealistic 19-year-old psychology student. He wanted to teach. She wanted to be a missionary. They hung out at the Rathskeller, a now-defunct bar at Mount St. Mary’s College, to drink draft beer and eat soft pretzels.
The Diocese of Allentown declined to comment on its actions toward Theresa Engelhardt or the harm they may have caused her and her son. In an emailed statement, a diocesan spokesman said Robert Dreisbach’s behavior had “caused great pain for all those affected.” Several efforts to reach Dreisbach for an interview were unsuccessful.
“I take accountability for my own errors,” said Bond, who lives in St. Louis now. “I should have been strong enough to not get myself into this situation, but I wasn’t at a strong place in my life.” “There is much more transparency, much more accountability, much more willingness for bishops and religious leaders to use the expertise that’s around them to help them figure this out and to do the right thing,” Plante said.
Their relationship endured after graduation, when Engelhardt returned home to Bethesda. Engelhardt eventually moved to eastern Pennsylvania, where Dreisbach was serving as a priest at Our Lady of Hungary Church in the Allentown diocese. Engelhardt had kept her relationship with Dreisbach quiet for more than a decade by the time she revealed the news of her pregnancy to the Allentown diocese.
Soon after she spoke to a local newspaper at the end of the court battle in 1993, she said, her parish priest told her she could no longer serve as a Eucharistic minister because the publicity was a distraction. The diocesan spokesman said the pastor remembered leaving the final decision to Engelhardt.
Her son is now a father himself. John Dreisbach lives near Buffalo, with his wife, their 6-year-old son and their 4-year-old daughter. He said he has fought depression throughout his life, a fact that he attributes in part to his complicated relationship with his father. Leave the priesthood or not? Like Engelhardt, other women who became involved with priests said they felt their lives had been hijacked as they waited to see whether the priests would choose the relationship or their vocation.
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