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Posted by James Warden (Editor) , December 20, 2013
After weeks of cover-up accusations against the Catholic Church, church supporters are now making cover-up allegations of their own … against the news organization that’s largely responsible for breaking the story on clergy sex abuse.
A Friday statement from the Catholic Defense League of Minnesota said Minnesota Public Radio appeared to be withholding information on clergy sex abuse in order to benefit their editorial schedule.
MPR has played a significant part in driving coverage of the clergy sex abuse scandal. Its coverage included information from a church official who left in frustration after she thought the church didn’t respond adequately to abuse allegations.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis had originally won court approval to seal a 2004 list of priests who had been “credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors in the archdiocese.” But the growing uproar convinced the church to reverse course. It released a list of accused priests Dec. 5.
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