PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Monica Yant Kinney
Inquirer Columnist
Now that I know more than I ever wanted to about pedophile priests in Philadelphia, I realize how little we've learned about their criminal counterparts across the river.
Depravity knows no boundaries, but at least in Pennsylvania it has a name.
Make that 63 names.
A grand jury - giving new meaning to civic duty - spent two years digesting nauseating allegations of sexual abuse by clergy in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
In all, jurors heard complaints about 169 priests since 1967.
Writing about them all would have taken a decade.
Instead, the grand jury's blistering 418-page report focused on the 63 abusers whose cases best illustrated the depth of the scandal and breadth of the cover-up.
It made for a startling sight: three newspaper pages devoted to smiling men in collars and the trail of tears they left behind.