BOSTON (MA)
WBUR
August 21, 2018
By Maria Garcia, Eve Zuckoff, and Paris Alston
Length: 21:24
Cardinal Sean O’Malley is apologizing for how his office handled a 2015 letter that raised concerns about sexual abuse by another American cardinal.
This follows Pope Francis’ letter Monday condemning sexual misconduct and coverups of abuse by clergy, in light of a scathing grand jury report detailing decades of abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania.
But some Catholic theologians, educators, parishoners and leaders in the U.S. are going a step further: They’ve written a letter calling on all Catholic bishops in the U.S. to resign, which they plan to submit to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) tomorrow at midnight. So far, the letter has garnered more than 3,500 signatures.
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