SPRINGFIELD (MA)
Springfield News Republican
October 3, 2018
By Anne-Gerard Flynn
A representative from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will talk with Springfield diocese clergy on the church’s sexual abuse crisis in the wake of several high profile recent investigations.
Francesco Cesareo, who chairs the National Review Board that advises the USCCB on preventing such abuse, will meet with clergy Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 6 p.m. at Pope Francis Preparatory School, 99 Wendover Road.
A recently released Pennsylvania grand jury report found that more than 1,000 children were victimized by some 300 Catholic priests over seven decades and that their sexual abuse was covered up by church hierarchy.
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, was suspended from ministry in June after the New York archdiocese deemed credible an accusation that he had molested a 16-year-old boy there 50 years ago.
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