PITTSBURGH (PA)
Tribune-Review
By Rachel Weaver
Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Sex-abuse scandals in the past decade have given religious leaders a greater understanding of how to handle allegations, say Roman Catholic Church officials in Western Pennsylvania.
“There is no ‘cure’ for this,” said the Rev. Ron Lengwin, spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh. “This is not something where you can simply send them away to a treatment center and put them in another parish assignment.”
Individual dioceses set policies for handling abuse allegations, to use in conjunction with national standards of The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.
The Pittsburgh diocese put most of its practices in place in the late 1980s, Lengwin said.
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