Pennsylvania releases grand-jury report

Although is was expected to be a bombshell, the report was that – and horrifying: 301 priests abused abused more than 1000 kids — and this represents only the reported cases. After the McCarrick case, residents of the Washington, D.C. archdiocese are surely stunned that a name that pops up often in the report is that of Donald Wuerl, then Bishop of Pittsburgh, now McCarrick’s successor as Cardinal Archbishop of the nation’s capital.

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