I had been at the Washington Times
for more than seven years editing the pop-culture page, when I was
tapped to become the paper’s religion editor in 2003. I’d been doing a
fair amount of religion reporting before that, but I hadn’t covered the
beat full-time since my stint at the Houston Chronicle in the late 1980s.
One thing that had changed in the intervening years was how the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church was all over the news,
and had been since early 2002. That was the year that religion
reporters around the country had to grind out piece after piece on all
the revelations first pouring out of Boston and then in dioceses around
the country.http://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2016/1/25/minneapolis-star-trib-doggedly-pursues-catholic-sex-abuse-saga
