For anyone who has been following the sex-abuse scandal in the American Catholic Church, the Pennsylvania grand-jury report on the failures of the Altoona diocese
follows a depressingly familiar pattern. There are the priests who
molest adolescents (virtually always boys), the treatment centers that
give the predators clean bills of health, enabling them to find more
prey. But in the whole sad 145-page report (which is embedded in this Post-Gazette report) there are also some remarkable new features:
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