PENNSYLVANIA
The Express-Times
Thursday, September 22, 2005
By JIM DEEGAN
The Express-Times
The leader of the Allentown Diocese is named several times in a blistering grand jury report that accuses the Philadelphia Archdiocese of carefully concealing sexual abuse by priests for decades.
Bishop Edward P. Cullen was a top aide to Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, the retired prelate who was accused Wednesday in the grand jury report of covering up repeated abuse allegations against priests.
The grand jury report alleges Cullen instructed his assistant during his tenure in Philadelphia never to tell sexual abuse victims that he believed them.