UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
Jamie Manson | May. 1, 2013 Grace on the Margins
Rumors that the Roman Catholic church’s clergy sex abuse crisis is a problem of the past have been greatly exaggerated.
“The bishops’ public relations machine has persuaded the people that it is a problem that was, not that is,” Jeff Anderson says, “and that is a living lie. There have been superficial changes, but not fundamental changes.”
Anderson, one of the most well-known lawyers to bring a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic church, was part of a panel to promote the publication of Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal, a new book by journalist Michael D’Antonio.
The event took place April 23 in New York City’s Bleecker Street Theatre, one week before new revelations that, just across the Hudson River, Newark’s Archbishop John J. Myers allowed a priest who admitted to groping a 14-year-old boy to attend youth retreats, travel with a youth group on a pilgrimage to Canada and hear the confessions of minors.
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