advised him to seek financial compensation through the Archdiocese of Washington. According to Wojnowski, after some correspondence and long delays, the archdiocese informed him that the Italian priest was dead and that there would be no compensation. In April 1998 he took early retirement and began his daily protest outside the Vatican embassy. Present day , 20 years later, Wojnowski appears daily outside the Vatican embassy, standing silently alongside a banner reading "The Vatican hides pedophiles". See also Nunciature of the Holy See in Washington DC References Further reading "The Passion of John Wojnowski" Washingtonian Magazine, July 2012 Polish emigrants to the United States Anti-pedophile activism Activists for victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church 1943 births Living people