More painful information about abuse in the Catholic Church has come to light this week.

We discuss religion and power and share Sarah's conversation with Erin Waffen, a Disciples

of Christ's Minister and Author of Resist and Persist.

This is Sarah from the Left and Beth from the Right.

You're listening to Pantsy Qualitudes.

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

Welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

We've gotten such great feedback on our conversation, continuing conversation on 9-11.

We're going to take a pause on Tuesday and talk to Amy McGraw.

We're so excited about that.

But today we wanted to do a quick update on the news coming out about the continued

abuses within the Catholic Church over the past several decades.

And we're going to share, like we said in the opening of my conversation with our friend

and former, I guess current sorority sister, I still consider myself a member of our sorority.

Erin Waffen.

The New York Times, I think, summarized the report coming out of Pennsylvania pretty well.

So I'm just going to read directly from the Times.

Viships and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania covered up child sexual

abuse by more than 300 priests over a period of 70 years, persuading victims not to report

the abuse and law enforcement not to investigate it according to a searing report issued by

a grand jury on Tuesday.

The report which covered six of the state's eight Catholic diocese and found more than

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