Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown challenged the veracity of a statement the Archdiocese of Baltimore posted on its website about a report by Brown’s office detailing decades of child sex abuse and torture by Catholic clergy in Maryland and the church’s coverup.

On April 5, the day the report’s was made public, the Archdiocese posted to its website answers for what it described as frequently asked questions about the 450-page report the attorney general’s office released last week, airing publicly for the first time the staggering scope of abuse committed by priests and others affiliated with the church.

In one section, the Archdiocese addressed 10 living people accused in the report of abuse whose names were redacted from the document, saying the names “were not redacted at the request of the Archdiocese” and that the “attorney general requested that their names be redacted, and the court ordered it.”

Brown, a…