PHILADELPHIA (PA)
The Wall Street Journal
By JOHN W. MILLER
The Archbishop of Philadelphia met with hundreds of priests in a closed-door session Wednesday to discuss 27 suspended clerics under investigation for alleged sexual abuse or other misconduct, but didn’t disclose whether some or all of the suspended priests would return to active ministry.
A spokesman for Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said a final determination about the priests in question is still expected “in the first months of 2012.”
The turmoil surrounding the nation’s sixth largest archdiocese, with 500 priests and 1.5 million members, has become a symbol of the church’s struggles with child sex-abuse because it has dragged on for almost a decade and because it is the first case in which a church official faces criminal charges for covering up alleged abuse.
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