HOUSTON (TX)
WHRX TV
December 10, 2018
By Bill Balleza and Debbie Strauss
There is a crisis in the Catholic Church.
Earlier this month, federal, state and local law enforcement officials executed a search warrant inside the offices of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
ed out computers, files and boxes.
Just 24 hours earlier, in those same offices, KPRC2’s Bill Balleza sat down with Cardinal Daniel DiNardo for an exclusive interview about the sex abuse scandal that perhaps foreshadowed the next day’s events.
Balleza: “Has the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston been subpoenaed as part of this investigation?”
Cardinal DiNardo: “No, we have not. We are, of course, ready to cooperate with any investigation.”
The law enforcement search came on the heels of the arrest of the Rev. Manuel La Rosa Lopez, who was accused of abusing children in Conroe in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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