WASHINGTON (DC)
Washington Post
September 3, 2018
By Antonio Olivo and Martin Weil
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/man-shouts-at-cardinal-wuerl-during-talk-here-after-sunday-ceremony/2018/09/03/bc720c76-af2d-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html
A man stood and yelled “Shame on you” as Cardinal Donald Wuerl on Sunday addressed the sex abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church and asked parishioners to pray for Pope Francis as he deals with the problem.
A video of the incident inside Annunciation Catholic Church in Northwest Washington shows the man, identified by CNN as Brian Garfield, walking angrily toward the exit after he could be heard yelling at Wuerl during a short speech in which the cardinal also asked parishioners to forgive his “errors in judgment” in handling sexual abuse allegations while he was a bishop in Pittsburgh.
Garfield, who could not be reached for comment Monday, told CNN that he is a lifelong Catholic and is angry about the findings of a grand jury report in Pennsylvania released last month that documented abuse by 300 priests over the course of 70 years.
The report focused attention on Wuerl’s mixed record of dealing with abusive priests when he was bishop of Pittsburgh for 18 years before becoming archbishop of the Washington archdiocese in 2006.
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