PHILADELPHIA (PA)
CNN
By Sarah Hoye, CNN
Philadelphia (CNN) – It’s been four weeks since the beginning of the trial of the highest ranking U.S. Catholic Church leader charged with covering up the crimes of priests against children.
The main issue is not whether sex abuse occurred, as defense attorneys have pointed out, but how the Archdiocese of Philadelphia – Monsignor William Lynn in particular – handled the allegations against priests in the diocese.
The trial against Lynn and the alleged offending priest, the Rev. James Brennan, has already created a shake-up in Philadelphia’s Catholic leadership, according to Catholic commentator and blogger Rocco Palmo.
“It’s a shift you see once in 200 years,” Palmo told CNN.
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