NEWTON (NEW JERSEY)
New Jersey Herald
August 28, 2018
By Michael Reagan
Am I the only Catholic who thinks the church needs to consider getting rid of the old guard — all the way up to the Pope?
That may be the only way to finally purge the predatory priests who have been allowed to exist within the bowels of the Catholic Church for so long.
The church has been rocked in recent years by sexual abuse scandals in Ireland, Australia, Chile, Boston, LA …
Then two weeks ago we got the shocking results of the country’s largest investigation ever into the sex crimes of Catholic priests.
A grand jury in Pennsylvania identified more than 300 “predator priests” in six dioceses who over the course of 70 years had molested and raped nearly 1,000 children, mostly boys.
The bombshell report named the priests who had been caught abusing kids, and in graphic and sordid detail it described what they did — again and again, even after their superiors learned of their molesting.
According to the grand jury report, the priests’ serial sexual abuse was only possible because of a church-wide cover up that reached all the way to the Vatican.
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