WASHINGTON (DC)
WJLA
Monday August 01, 2005 7:14am
Capital area dioceses say they have done their best to respond to the Catholic church's three-year-old charge to reconcile with sexual abuse victims.
Some say church leaders need to do more.
The Arlington diocese's victim assistance coordinator Patricia Mudd tells the Washington Post that Arlington has celebrated ten masses over the past year where priests publicly atone on behalf of the church.
But victims-group leader Bill Casey says the diocese only announces the masses in the diocesan newspaper, which doesn't reach enough victims.
Washington's Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has reportedly met one-one-one with abuse victims.