CHICAGO (IL)
WGN
November 10, 2020
By Katharin Czink and Dina Bair
The Catholic Church is reeling after a Vatican report on sex abuse was released Tuesday.
The report reveals mistakes and cover ups allowed for the abuse.
Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich calls it a watershed moment.
The report is almost too difficult to read — 449 pages documenting assaults on innocent victims and protection of the adults who carried out the abuse.
Church sex abuse victims stood in Rome telling the Pope, cardinals and bishops about their abuse. The sex abuse summit was just the beginning for the Catholic Church. An investigation of one of the most powerful U.S. bishops and a disgraced former U.S. cardinal was occurring at the same time.
Now the final report.
It is a revelation church leadership hopes will pull the curtain back on what were systemic problems to make way for healing for abuse victims and prevention of these horrors from ever happening again.
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