Bishop Ronald Gainer, of the Harrisburg Diocese, celebrates mass at the Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. The grand jury report released this week found rampant sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by about 300 priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses over seven decades. It criticized Gainer for advocating to the Vatican that two abusive priests not be defrocked. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Undated) – In the wake of Pennsylvania’s sweeping and landmark investigation into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy members, some people want to see every Catholic diocese in the country receive the same level of scrutiny. “I would love to see that happen,” Mark Rozzi, a Pennsylvania state representative who testified as an abuse victim, said in a radio interview the day after Pennsylvania’s nearly 900-page grand jury report was released. Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests have called for every state’s attorney general to follow Pennsylvania’s lead and launch formal investigations into how U.S. bishops deal with victims and predator priests. “We find in Pennsylvania that the church hierarchy will only report child sex abuse by … clergy when forced to by outside agencies like a grand jury,” the organization said… Read full this story
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