The Catholic Priest Fiasco (And How It Got This Far)
How could the Catholic Church let this get so far without being criminally sanctioned? I’ve been skirting around writing on the subject of predatory priests for two reasons. First, it cuts close to home; next, there’s been new developments weekly.
I finally forced myself to read a portion of the 1,356-page report on church sex abuse issued following a grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania. It reads like a novel, backed by parish documents, maps, letters to the Vatican, and an appropriate tone of outrage by the author(s). How could the Catholic Church let this get so far without being criminally sanctioned?
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/10/the-catholic-priest-fiasco-and-how-it-got-this-far/
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/10/the-catholic-priest-fiasco-and-how-it-got-this-far/