Above is The Denver Post‘s picture of Ms. Joyce Calvo-Chen.>This is a repost from my main site of an article originally published in 2022.>In December 2019, a young woman named Miss Alana Chen (see picture far below) was found dead at age 24 and Boulder County, Colorado ruled it a suicide. Her mother, Ms. Joyce Calvo-Chen (see picture above) immediately pinned it on the past counseling of two diocesan priests (including myself) and two religious sisters. This was despite the fact I had not seen Alana for three years before her death. This was despite the fact that I was a priest at Joyce and Alana’s Boulder parish from 2010-2011—a full nine years before Alana’s death. At her death, I blogged about how Alana had (in the past) defended me against false-accusations here.

Originally published in Padre Peregrino. Read original article