That 1985-2002 Clergy-Abuse Gap (Revisited)
Get Religion’s editor, Terry Mattingly, writes that, contrary to what some recent news stories have reported, 2012 does not mark the 10th anniversary of the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse crisis. “Religion-beat veterans … have been covering the crisis since the mid-1980s,” writes Mattingly, “complete with magazine cover stories, a major book or two and even a made for television movie.”