‘It isn’t a federal matter’: Lou Barletta dodges when he’s asked about church sex abuse report

HARRISBURG (PA)
Penn Live

August 9, 2018

By John L. Micek

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers.

Just about any day now, Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office is expected to drop a bombshell report on clergy sex abuse within Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses that will have repercussions for years to come.

Pennsylvania’s two candidates for United States Senate, Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Lou Barletta, both Roman Catholics, had very different reactions when a Pittsburgh television station asked them about the report’s imminent release.

The station specifically asked the two candidates for their reaction to the abuse report and, critically, the role of government in handling the cases.

Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.