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The Deliver Us podcast asks: Is the church still covering up abuse?

Deliver UsFebruary 28, 2019
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In this episode of “Deliver Us” we ask: Is the church still covering up abuse? We talk to journalist Jason Berry, who reported on an abuser priest in the ’80s for National Catholic Reporter, as well as members of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, who broke the news of the sex abuse crisis in 2002. We ask them: how did the church cover up abuse?

Then, we fast-forward to today to see whether or not the church is still hiding sex abuse. What can we learn from the past? And why is full transparency so difficult to achieve? Peter Steinfels, who has written critically about the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report for Commonweal, helps us understand the data.

Further reading:

Jason Berry’s book, Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

The original Spotlight reporting

Peter Steinfels on the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report

The theme music for Deliver Us is composed and produced by Kris McCormick. Additional music courtesy of APM.
Deliver Us

Will the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis ever end? In “Deliver Us,” host Maggi Van Dorn is a Catholic committed to healing the church from the inside. She wants to know: How did this happen? And what, if anything, can we do to help? Hear from experts, advocates, and survivors to learn what the church can do to move forward. Because you can’t fix something until you know how it’s broken. The season launches February 13, 2019 with new episodes premiering weekly through the spring.

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J. Calpezzo
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Roger Mahony got away with it. His crimes were worse than McCarrick's.

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