UNITED STATES
U.S. Catholic
By Bryan Cones
We in the United States have become accustomed to news of clerical sexual abuse–weary even. The past decade has been a time of serious self-examination, and though the issue is hardly resolved, U.S. dioceses have taken major steps toward making the church safer for children, though much remains to be done.
This isn’t as true in the rest of the Catholic world–a recent NBC News report covered some troubling stories out of Latin America, most notably the papal nuncio to the Dominican Republic, who is alleged to have paid underage boys for sex. He was “withdrawn” some weeks ago, but other cases in Latin America are beginning to gain attention, with some local bishops making the same mistakes their counterparts in the U.S. have made over the years. Some have wondered if Pope Francis is serious about reform on this issue.
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