2014 in review: Top Twin Cities stories

By Laura Mccallum
Minnesota Public Radio
December 30, 2014

http://blogs.mprnews.org/cities/2014/12/2014-in-review-top-twin-cities-stories-of-the-year/

After more than a year’s worth of reporting on the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, MPR News’ special report, Betrayed by Silence, goes inside the cover-up led by three archbishops to see how and why the church protected priests who sexually abused children. Hundreds of hours of interviews and thousands of documents make clear that that church leaders knew they had abusers in the priesthood and they did everything in their power to keep the situation quiet. Meanwhile, they reassured the faithful and the media that clergy sexual abuse was a thing of the past.