When the doors opened, the Rev. Rick Stansberry stepped into the hospital elevator and noticed a man and a young boy were already inside.

As the two prepared to get out, the boy asked the man why they were getting off on a floor that wasn't where they were originally headed.

"Because it's not safe with him in here," the man said, glancing at Stansberry who wore the clerical collar readily identifying him as a Catholic priest.

The memory of that 2002-2003 encounter recently came bubbling to the surface when Stansberry learned about a grand jury report sharing sordid details about alleged clergy sex abuse in several Pennsylvania dioceses and the decades-long efforts to cover it up.