Opinion: The unending sex abuse reports about Catholic clergy

UNITED STATES
Inforum

July 20, 2018

By Jon Lindgren

The news story about Cardinal McCarrick was so devastating it is hard to fathom behavior this terrible. A Cardinal, of course, is among the highest ranking of Catholic clergy.

Now in his 80’s, he has finally been defrocked. But for 30 years the management of the Catholic Church has know, even acknowledged by secret payments to victims, this man is a pedophile. The church kept this secret and McCarrick retained his credentials.

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