From Pennsylvania-
Systemic efforts to cover-up sexual abuse by
clergy in six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses included not only church
officials and bishops in Greensburg and Pittsburgh but reached as high
as communications with the Vatican, revealed a long-anticipated grand
jury report made public Tuesday.
Backed
by more than a dozen adult victims of priest abuse in six Catholic
dioceses, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro blasted the church. He
said the grand jury that sat for two years in Pittsburgh heard searing
testimony from dozens of witnesses and corroborated most of the
allegations made against 301 “predator priests” in more than a half
million documents secreted away in church archives.
Of those, 20 worked in the Greensburg diocese and 99 in the one based in Pittsburgh.
“There
have been other reports of abuse within the Catholic church, but none
this extensive,” Shapiro said Tuesday from his Harrisburg office,
moments after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released an edited version
of the 884-page report. “It paints a complete picture of abuse and
cover-up in every diocese in Pennsylvania.”
More here-
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/13973314-74/grand-jury-names-20-greensburg-priests-99-from-pittsburgh-in-catholic-sex
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