ROCHESTER (NY)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Dec. 4, 2019
By Steve Orr
The Buffalo diocese of Buffalo, like its neighboring diocese of Rochester, has now felt the full effect of the Catholic Church’s roiling child sexual abuse scandal.
Buffalo Bishop Richard J. Malone, who was beset by public criticism, internal leaks and outside investigations, is leaving his post early, the Vatican announced early Wednesday.
Malone’s departure, coming just three weeks after a meeting with Pope Francis, was widely seen as a rebuke of his handling of abuse allegations.
He becomes the the sixth American bishop or cardinal in four years to leave office under the cloud of the church’s on-going child sexual abuse scandal.
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