Thirteen years ago, as a national scandal raged over the rape and
molestation of school children by hundreds of Catholic priests, a panel
of leading laity appointed by the national hierarchy to look into church
responsibility candidly warned
“there must be consequences” for the bishops who led years of cover-up.
The bishops’ marked failure to follow through since by investigating fellow superiors was brought home this month in a scathing grand jury report in Pennsylvania. It found at least 50 priests and other church employees sexually molested hundreds of children in central Pennsylvania parishes for over four decades while church officials and some civil authorities knew but worked to conceal the crimes.
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/shepherds-accountability-when-the-flock-is-abused/?emc=edit_tnt_20160318&nlid=61881856&tntemail0=y&_r=0
The bishops’ marked failure to follow through since by investigating fellow superiors was brought home this month in a scathing grand jury report in Pennsylvania. It found at least 50 priests and other church employees sexually molested hundreds of children in central Pennsylvania parishes for over four decades while church officials and some civil authorities knew but worked to conceal the crimes.
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/shepherds-accountability-when-the-flock-is-abused/?emc=edit_tnt_20160318&nlid=61881856&tntemail0=y&_r=0