YORK (PA)
York Daily Record
December 7, 2018
By Candy Woodall
Until Friday morning, Terry McKiernan had 178 Jesuit priests on a list of abusive clergy members in the U.S.
His list grew after the U.S. Central and Southern Province released the names of 42 Jesuit priests credibly accused of sexually abusing children.
The wholesale release of names of abusive priests has been trending among dioceses around the world since August, when a grand jury report identified 301 predator priests in Pennsylvania. Friday marked the first time a Jesuit order named their abusers in a long list.
While the Catholic priest abuse scandal might seem more transparent than ever, McKiernan said we know fewer than half of all abusive priests by name.
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