PORTLAND (OR)
The Oregonian/OregonLive
August 27, 2018
By Fedor Zarkhin
Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample got straight to the point Sunday at a special mass for victims of sexual abuse.
“I am sorry beyond words for what priests and bishops have done to harm the children of God,” he said at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. “I am ashamed of them.”
A recent grand jury report outlined decades of abuse by hundreds of Pennsylvania priests. The report has shaken the country’s Catholic community, already facing regular revelations of sexual abuse.
Sample called for change. Incidents must be fully investigated, he said, and priests and bishops must be held accountable, “no matter how high this goes.”
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