PHILADELPHIA (PA)
The Philadelphia Inquirer
December 4, 2019
By Mike Newall
You couldn’t call it a happy day in New Jersey. But it was a long-awaited one.
On Monday, victims of past sexual abuse by priests began to file civil lawsuits against the Catholic Church — suits long barred by the statute of limitations.
Fifty lawsuits, the first wave of what are expected to be hundreds during a two-year window in which any victims of sexual abuse can file civil claims against their abusers, regardless of when the abuse happened. The window is one advocates fought hard to pry open. And one the church and its insurance agencies have long tried to hold shut.
A chance at some measure of justice, finally.
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