CHARLESTON (SC)
The Post and Courier
The Catholic Diocese of Charleston will offer a special Mass at 5:15 p.m. Sunday in observation of National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
The Mass, held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Broad Street, “will be offered for the healing of child sexual abuse victims and their families, and in recognition of the diocese’s newly adopted policy that addresses sexual abuse allegations,” the diocese said in a news release.
The Catholic Church has been coping for decades with allegations of abuse at the hands of pedophile priests and church employees, as well as accusations of cover-ups and obfuscation. The scandal first burst onto the public stage in the U.S. in the 1980s and has since embroiled church officials in European countries, Canada, Mexico and elsewhere.
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