PHILADELPHIA (PA)
WHYY (NPR affiliate)
October 8, 2018
By Laura Benshoff
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Each time there’s a new report or newspaper article about sex abuse in the Catholic Church, Chuck Gesing steels himself.
“That was disgusting,” said Gesing, of the most recent grand jury report in Pennsylvania, which alleged more than 300 priests sexually abused more than 1,000 minors. But, he called such news “not unexpected at this point.”
In August, NPR asked Catholic listeners from Pennsylvania and across the country to share their responses to the report. The survey asked whether any of the now four investigations into systematic child abuse by priests in the state have caused them to reconsider their faith or join a different denomination. More than 200 people responded.
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