PROVIDENCE (RI)
Providence Journal
September 14, 2018
By Tom Mooney
Tremors from the escalating clergy sex-abuse crisis now shaking the Catholic Church’s Vatican hierarchy were evident Friday in a Providence cathedral, in a diocese where leaders confronted a wave of sex-abuse cases almost 20 years ago and yearn to move beyond what they say is the past.
Yet as more allegations emerge elsewhere — the pope ignoring warnings about a prominent cardinal; a Pennsylvania grand jury report that 300 priests had abused more than 1,000 children over decades — escaping Rhode Island’s own dark history is proving difficult, local church officials concede.
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