How could priests do this? Once, again, the Church confronts this question after Tuesday's release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report on sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses over several decades. Even after so many previous revelations, the facts are still horrifying. Some of the details of the report - involving groups of priests acting in concert, behaving in ways sadistic, sacrilegious, and blasphemous - go beyond the imaginations of Hollywood in their stomach-churning brutality and perversity.
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Would a mass resignation of bishops hurt the US Church? Quite the opposite
Policies have slowly improved. But as a matter of justice, individual prelates should admit wrongdoing and step down
William Dailey
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