Opinion: In revealing Catholic Church sex abuse, we can thank the law – and not the Men of God

PHILADELPHIA (PA)
The Philadelphia Inquirer

August 20, 2018

By Maria Panaritis

Thank God for church records. For they shall guide us all toward truth.

Thank God for the criminal investigators and prosecutors.

Thank God for the grand jury subpoenas. For they extracted – like rotting teeth – clergy-abuse personnel files in unreachable corners of six Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses serving 1.7 million people.

Thank God for the courage of the victims. For without them, Attorney General Josh Shapiro and his team would have had no real cause to root out and unveil decades of depravity and systemic abuse by clergy, overseen by complicit superiors.

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