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by Stephen Wynne • ChurchMilitant.com • August 17, 2017
New investigation uncovers more evidence of Church in crisis
BOSTON (ChurchMilitant.com) – Fifteen years after its bombshell report on clerical sex abuse, the Boston Globe is again throwing light on a dark corner of the Church — this time exposing the plight of children fathered by unchaste priests.
In a two-part series published Wednesday and Thursday, the paper released findings from an investigation led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Rezendes, who in 2002 first unmasked the sexual abuse crisis in the Church.
Rezendes’ new report reveals that across the world, thousands of people are uncovering “strong evidence that they are the sons and daughters of Catholic priests.” The prevalence of the phenomenon is such that in 2014, Vincent Doyle, the son of an Irish priest, established Coping International, an organization devoted to providing support to offspring of Catholic priests and religious.
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