PITTSBURGH (PA)
KDKA
August 15, 2018
He gained a national reputation for rooting out sex abuse in the church, even defying the Vatican by refusing to transfer pedophile priest Anthony Cipolla back in 1993.
But now Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro accuses Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the former bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, of protecting child predators.
“Child rape is rape, whether it occurred in the 1980s, ‘90s, or 2018,” said Shapiro. “It is never acceptable, and it is never okay to cover it up as Bishop [David] Zubik did and as Cardinal Wuerl did.”
Part of Shapiro’s claim involves Richard Zula, one of the priests convicted under Cardinal Wuerl’s watch. He says Cardinal Wuerl allegedly offered Zula $180,000 after Zula threatened to name other priests.
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