OPINION EDITORIAL: Bishops need to get out of the way of abuse investigators

NEW YORK (NY)
New York Post

August 18, 2018

Post Editorial Board

Of all the horrors in the Pennsylvania grand-jury report on decades of abuse by Catholic priests, the greatest may be this: “Monsignors, auxiliary bishops, bishops, archbishops, cardinals have mostly been protected” — and “many, including some named in this report, have been promoted.”

The 1,400-page report covers decades of secret history for six of the state’s eight dioceses. It lists 300-plus priests who had engaged in abuse, mostly of boys but also of girls. The incomplete roster of victims runs more than 1,000.

Details include a child pornography ring, rape of a pre-teen girl in the hospital, sadistic “grooming,” a girl impregnated and then “helped” with an abortion and on and on and on.

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