PEORIA (IL)
WCBU / NPR
October 30, 2020
By Audie Cornish
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On the sexual abuse crisis within the Catholic Church
I think what we have to do is see it as a continual commitment to providing a safe environment for our children, not just in the Catholic Church, not just in our schools, not just in our sports programs. …
At that time [in the early 2000s], you will recall that the attention was that this was an American problem.
In the past two decades, we see it as not just an American problem. And so I think it involves the entire church to, as you rightfully suggest, to make sure that leadership is on the right page and that we can never reassign a cleric or another church worker who has been clearly identified as a perpetrator to have public access to young people.
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And on the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, Wilton Gregory has said…
We must admit our own failures. We clerics and hierarchs have irrefutably been the source of this current tempest.
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