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Sins of the Fathers

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Survivors of Catholic clergy sexual abuse have gone after the church in a piecemeal fashion. But the Roman Catholic Church’s cover-up of child sexual abuse goes back decades, and experts say it reaches the upper echelons of church leadership. What would it take to go after the Vatican? We talk to someone who’s tried it: Marci Hamilton, a professor and founder of Child USA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From spending the day on crystal clear waters, soaking up the sun, to watching it set, chilled

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glass and hand over a sparkling waterfront.

0:11.4

Tampa Bay makes the most of the Florida sunshine, long pass sundown, with so much to see and

0:17.0

do, enjoy a sun-filled getaway to Tampa Bay in the gorgeous Gulf Coast.

0:22.1

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holidays dot code at UK.

0:40.3

Michael J Amy Thomas J Bender Donald C Bolton.

0:47.6

Robert F Bauer.

0:51.0

This past summer as part of a grand jury report, the state attorney general in Pennsylvania

0:56.0

released this list.

0:58.6

Michael R Freeman.

1:01.2

Edward Graf.

1:02.8

Francis J. From Holzer.

1:05.7

It's a list of 301 members of the Catholic clergy, all of them accused of sexual abuse.

1:12.3

Robert E. Hanon.

1:13.6

Edward George Ganster.

1:15.5

James P. Hopkins.

1:16.7

Francis T. Gillespie.

1:19.0

Almost every instance of abuse was too old to be prosecuted, the statute of limitations

1:24.7

it expired.

1:27.1

Over 1000 child victims were identified by our investigation, though the grand jury

1:35.0

notes that they believe that number was in the thousands.

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