WASHINGTON (DC)
Washington Examiner
August 21, 2018
By Pete Kasperowicz
Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., ripped the Catholic church on Tuesday for what he said was its weak response to a report that found priests in Pennsylvania were involved in the sexual abuse of at least 1,000 children.
“It is beyond disgusting, and the church’s response to it is deplorable on every level,” Santorum said on CNN.
“The fact that there has to be an outside probe like this from a grand jury to expose what the church should have exposed itself…” he said. “You talk about failing children … that it takes a government agency to do the job that the church should be doing from the very beginning, which is protecting its flock, and weeding itself out.”
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