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3 March 2016

Before "Spotlight": 60 Minutes on priest sex abuse

When "Spotlight" won the Oscar for best picture last night, the scourge of sex abuse in the Catholic Church took center stage. But it's a problem the Church has been wrestling with for decades.
In the groundbreaking 60 Minutes story above (which aired in 1993 and was updated in 2002), Mike Wallace reported on Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sanchez was accused of covering up for pedophile priests in his archdiocese -- and having sex with young women himself.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/before-spotlight-60-minutes-on-priest-sex-abuse/