Discreetly arriving day and night, the visiting priests came to a tiny Midwestern town. Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they blended unnoticed into the community, even dining at local restaurants, without their neighbors suspecting that some of them might have been accused sexual predators.
A small nonprofit group named Opus Bono Sacerdotii had brought these priests to town. Operating out of unmarked buildings in rural Michigan for almost two decades, Opus Bono provided financial,...