What Next - New Sex Abuse Charges Roil the Catholic Church
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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
After a long-delayed five-year investigation, the Illinois attorney general Kwame Raoul released the report on sexual abuse in the Illinois Catholic church. Where does this case fit in in the long history of abuse in the Catholic Church? And over two decades after the infamous Boston Globe investigation into the Catholic Church, has anything changed?
Guest: Robert Herguth, investigative reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, part of the Watchdogs team.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, quick heads up for me that we are talking about sex abuse in the Catholic |
| 0:06.0 | Church in this episode. |
| 0:08.4 | Take care of yourself, while you listen. |
| 0:16.1 | Last week, the Attorney General of Illinois released a 696 page report, and then he stepped |
| 0:24.1 | in front of reporters to talk about it. |
| 0:26.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:28.4 | Were you watching that press conference? |
| 0:30.4 | Yeah, I was there. |
| 0:31.7 | Robert Hergoth is a reporter at the Sun Times, and he was at this presser because he had |
| 0:37.0 | questions for the AG. |
| 0:39.3 | This report dealt with the subject Roberts become an expert in the Catholic Church. |
| 0:44.8 | The Attorney General found evidence that nearly 2,000 people were abused by clergy over |
| 0:50.8 | the last seven decades. |
| 0:53.8 | Now, before we dive into the heart of this report, I believe it's important that I share |
| 1:01.0 | my personal history with the Catholic Church. |
| 1:04.4 | I was struck by how emotional the press conference seemed to be. |
| 1:08.8 | My mother was a faithful, practicing Catholic for the entirety of her life, praying every |
| 1:18.0 | night and regularly attending church. |
| 1:22.2 | The Attorney General, Kwame Rool, he almost seemed like he was about to cry. |
| 1:26.4 | At the beginning of the press conference, what did you make of that? |
| 1:30.4 | I'm not sure whether that's the case, but I did notice that he seemed to be emotional. |
| 1:35.9 | He was raised Catholic. |
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