I started hearing rumors
Sacred Scandal
My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
After years of investigating abuse in the Catholic Church, journalist Jason Barry is ready for a quieter life. But when a mysterious box of documents arrives on his doorstep, he’s pulled into a new investigation. This time, the allegations point to a powerful Mexican priest, Marcial Maciel, and a cover-up that reaches the highest levels of the Vatican.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, |
| 0:14.0 | until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. |
| 0:20.9 | America, y'all better work the hell up. |
| 0:22.9 | Bad things happens to good people in small towns. |
| 0:32.5 | Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And to |
| 0:39.1 | binge the entire season ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:46.8 | On America's Crime Lab, the podcast, we're revealing the true story of the Idaho Four. |
| 0:51.5 | I was so frantic that morning and scared that the person who did this would come from me next. |
| 0:56.7 | They were struggling to identify a direction, a person of interest. |
| 1:01.1 | And I said, why wouldn't we work this case? |
| 1:03.8 | This three-part series features never before heard interviews about a crime that shook the nation |
| 1:08.4 | and the forensics lab that cracked the case wide open. |
| 1:12.0 | Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:18.3 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 1:22.7 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 1:29.4 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 1:32.8 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 1:38.1 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 1:41.7 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:51.7 | After nearly a decade investigating abuse in the Catholic Church, Jason Barry was finally ready |
| 2:03.3 | for some peace and quiet. It was 1994. He was back home in New Orleans, trying to do what no |
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