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The elephant in the sacristy
Mary Eberstadt, Weekly Standard
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Mary Eberstadt updates a 2002 essay on the painful subject of sex abuse. This moment seems catastrophically familiar, with more clergy sex scandals revealed not only in the U.S. but around the world. Viewed more widely, though, we are in a far better place than we were sixteen years ago.