Catholic church in Illinois vastly underreported clergy sex abuse, Kwame Raoul finds
CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Sun-Times
May 23, 2023
By Robert Herguth
Read original articleAt the start of a 5-year investigation by the attorney general, Cardinal Blase Cupich told seminarians the Archdiocese of Chicago had “posted all of the names” of predatory clergy. As the investigation neared its end, Cupich kept adding more names.
[Note from BishopAccountability.org: Click here to see the Illinois Attorney General’s Report on Catholic Clergy Child Sex Abuse in Illinois]
In August 2018, shortly after then-Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced an investigation into whether the Catholic church in Illinois had fully disclosed the scope of child sex abuse by priests and other clergy members, Cardinal Blase Cupich said the church had nothing to hide.
“Our record’s clean,” the top Catholic cleric in Chicago told a closed-door gathering of about 200 men studying at the Mundelein seminary to be priests, according to sources who were there. “I’m confident that, when the attorney general looks in our files . . . that…
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