After PA Bombshell, 6 States Investigate Sex Abuse In Catholic Church
"6 States Are Investigating Catholic Church Sex Abuse After Bombshell Pennsylvania Report." One in 5 Americans live in a state where the Catholic Church's sex abuse culture is finally being investigated. Think Progress, Sept. 6, 2018.
Legal authorities in New York and New Jersey announced sweeping inquiries into sexual abuse committed or facilitated by employees of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, just two-and-a-half years after Oscars voters lauded a film about journalists’ 2002 investigation into such abuses from the 1990s and earlier.
Thursday’s investigations follow similar overtures from the attorneys general of Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Nebraska. Florida’s Pam Bondi also says she’s reaching out to local prosecutors there to weigh her options for a similar probe, though her office has not issued formal demands for documents as in the other jurisdictions according to Religion News Service.
The six new state inquiries come weeks after a Pennsylvania grand jury concluded that more than 300 separate Catholic clergy in that state had serially abused children in their congregations, and 16 years after survivors, victims, and reporters first pushed the church’s patterns of abuse and cover-ups into the national spotlight.
“The Pennsylvania grand jury report shined a light on incredibly disturbing and depraved acts by Catholic clergy, assisted by a culture of secrecy and cover-ups in the dioceses,” New York attorney general Barbara Underwood said Thursday, 33 years after the first time a Catholic priest’s sexual abuse of parishoners became public in Louisiana. - More.
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VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - People walk through St. Peter's Basilica at dawn on September 03, 2018. Tensions in the Vatican are high following accusations that Pope Francis covered up for an American ex-cardinal accused of sexual misconduct. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a member of the conservative movement in the church, made the allegations and has called for Pope Francis to resign. Many Vatican insiders see the dispute as an outgrowth of the growing tension between the left leaning Pope and the Catholic Church's more conservative & anti-homosexual faction.
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