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Why Does the Catholic Church Keep Failing on Sexual Abuse?

posted on February 14, 2019

The Atlantic’s Emma Green profiles Cardinal Seán O’Malley, and writes about his struggles to institute reforms to address the sexual abuse crisis within the Catholic Church. O’Malley, a close advisor to the pope and the leader of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, said of the upcoming summit on sexual abuse at the Vatican: “My worry is that the expectations in the United States are that this meeting is going to address all of our local concerns here, which is not necessarily the case.” Green writes, “O’Malley’s career, with all of its successes and frustrations, illuminates why the sex-abuse crisis has once again subsumed the Catholic Church—and why this institution, one of the world’s great moral authorities, has been incapable of solving one of the most morally straightforward problems of our time.”

Read at The Atlantic