BOSTON (MA)
WBUR
By WBUR News & Wire Services
Jan 4, 2012
BOSTON — Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is marking the 10th anniversary of the start of the clergy sex abuse crisis with reflections on events he says “forever changed” the Roman Catholic church worldwide.
O’Malley released a letter and his reflections on Wednesday, two days before the anniversary of a 2002 Boston Globe story that sparked a wave of revelations about dozens of pedophile priests and the church leaders who transferred them between parishes while hiding their crimes.
O’Malley said Wednesday that the crisis will never be behind the church, and it can never cease to “beg forgiveness” from those who were harmed. …
“We don’t know what process he uses when he decides whether a priest must be removed, but a big misconception is that Cardinal O’Malley is immediately removing priests upon receipt of an allegation,” said Anne Barrett Doyle, of bishopaccountability.org. “He absolutely is not. His policy doesn’t even require him to do that.”
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