PHOENIX (AZ)
3TV/CBS 5
November 15, 2018
By Nicole Crites
Accountability for sex abuse in the Catholic Church has really come to a head this week. Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted and his national brother bishops were just about to vote on new proposals to end the crisis at a conference in Baltimore.
The Vatican stepped in and stopped the vote.
The church ambassador to the U.S. also suggested they do not need to work with any lay councils or law enforcement.
And Wednesday, Jesuits West just announced they are getting ready to release a new list of priests accused of sexual abuse going back to the 1950s here.
So what does that do to the progress we saw in transparency?
The Justice Department and 18 states are now investigating the Catholic church.
The Valley had one of the first task forces in the country and we got to sit down with their key witness.
Joe Ladensack helped take down a bishop and a half-dozen priests here in Phoenix 15 years ago.
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