HARRISBURG (PA)
PennLive.com
October 20, 2018
By Ivey DeJesus
The Catholic Church has historically responded to the crisis of the sexual abuse of children by priests as a pastoral challenge.
Victim after victim has been offered counseling and therapeutic services. Priests too were sent off to counseling and, in time, returned to ministry.
To this day, hundreds of victims have letters from bishops expressing regrets over the moral failings of priests. Indeed, few clerics or church officials in the U.S. Catholic Church have met with adjudication or criminal convictions.
Much has changed.
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