SAGINAW (MI)
Saginaw News
February 22, 2019
The Catholic Diocese of Saginaw is facing a crisis, and its initial slow response didn’t help.
Prosecutors say the diocese “stonewalled” law enforcement as it investigated claims of child sexual abuse by clergy. Some of those claims go back decades, prosecutors contend.
For victims of clergy sex abuse, the wounds run deep. Some describe a lifetime of guilt and doubt after church officials and their parents either ignored their stories of sexual abuse as children or hushed them up – priests wouldn’t do that.
Would they?
The Catholic Church today is grappling with the sex-abuse scandal across Michigan, the United States and worldwide. Pope Francis is meeting this weekend with church leaders at the Vatican to discuss the issue.
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