WASHINGTON
Sky Valley Chronicle

[letter of apology from the archbishop]

[list of the accused]

(SEATTLE, WA.) — There it is in plain but rather stunning language nonetheless on the home page of the Seattle Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church: “Archdiocese disclose names of child sex abusers.”

A pubic statement that just 10 years ago would not have seemed possible from a church seemingly under siege all over the country and in foreign lands over the issue of sex abuse by Catholic priests against male and female children, teens and women.

For years, according to numerous court documents filed in a landmark Boston case that has since been made into a movie, the church seemed to do its best to keep such things hidden from public view, to keep them under wraps.

Cases of alleged abuse were routinely settled out of court for money and a promise…