What Pope Francis knew or didn’t know won’t cure what ails the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is exposed. A number of wide-ranging, deeply researched reports of molestation, rape, abuse, corruption, and concealment have been released in close enough time to one another that the magnitude of the horror might actually—for the average American, anyway—sink in. It all feels monumental, if also powered in part by coincidence. The recently published Pennsylvania report, in which a grand jury details the sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by more than 300 priests and systematically argues that church officials were complicit, was two years in the making. It didn’t need to be released two weeks before BuzzFeed published Christine Kenneally’s yearslong investigation into the abuse of children—some of whom didn’t survive—by nuns and priests at St. Joseph’s Catholic orphanage.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/pennsylvania-report-on-catholic-church-abuse-dont-be-distracted-by-pope-francis.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/pennsylvania-report-on-catholic-church-abuse-dont-be-distracted-by-pope-francis.html
