Forty years ago, William Aitcheson was a University of Maryland student and Ku Klux Klan member who burned a cross in the front yard of a black newlywed couple's home, the Washington Post website reports today (August 22, 2017).
He was sentenced to jail time and ordered to pay about $20,000 to the family. Then he found God.
Aitcheson attended a seminary in Rome, became a reverend, and was ordained as a Catholic priest. He returned to the East Coast and served in several Virginia churches, including his most recent post at St. Leo the Great in Fairfax City, where he has been for four years.
Seeing images from the recent deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville spurred Aitcheson to make a confession of his own. He said he's temporarily stepping down from his post.
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