(Pt. 4 of 4) Recovering from the Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal: The Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report

How did the Catholic Church respond in the years following the 2002 Boston Globe article exposing the sex abuse crisis?

In this fourth and final episode of The Simpleton Podcast’s series on the Catholic sex abuse scandal, Clark and Laura summarize the reasons sex abuse became such an institutional problem and how the Church reformed in response.

They also discuss the 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, which analyses the scandal within six dioceses of the Church in Pennsylvania and the systemic cover-up of the abuse.

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