WASHINGTON (DC)
ABC7
August 21, 2018
By Victoria Sanchez
A national support group for people abused by Catholic priests is calling for the immediate resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
The leader of the Washington Archdiocese is under immense scrutiny after he was named more than 200 times in a Pennsylvania grand jury report about sexual abuse and cover-up when he was the Bishop of Pittsburgh for 18 years. The report took two years, is close to 900 pages, identifies roughly 300 priests and found at least 1,000 abused children in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) demanded change in the Catholic church as they stood in front of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Tuesday morning. They want Wuerl to resign or for Pope Francis to strip him of his title.
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