A Culture of Secrecy That Perpetuated Abuse

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A grand jury report found that Roman Catholic priests had abused more than 1,000 children in Pennsylvania over a period of 70 years. Some church officials say the report reiterates issues that have already been addressed, but details suggest otherwise. Guest: Laurie Goodstein, a national religion correspondent for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. This episode contains descriptions of abuse.

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0:25.6	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbar.
0:32.6	This is the day.
0:35.6	Today, a grand jury report finds that Catholic priests abused one thousand children in Pennsylvania
0:48.6	over a period of 70 years.
0:51.5	The church insists it's old news, but details of the report suggest it's not.
0:59.9	It's Thursday, August 16th.
1:04.4	Lori Goodstein, this feels like the most explosive reporting on the Catholic church since the Boston
1:08.9	Globes spotlight reporting 16 years ago.
1:12.6	Did it come as a surprise to you as a religion reporter?
1:16.5	I have to say it didn't. We are now in a new stage of the clergy's sex abuse scandal
1:23.9	in the Catholic church.
1:26.7	Things had been revving up even before this Pennsylvania grand jury report was released.
1:32.7	Lori Goodstein covers religion for the times.
1:35.4	A lot of Catholics were asking what did people in the hierarchy know about a particular
1:41.3	cardinal, that's theodore McCarrick, who was the former archbishop of Washington, DC.
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