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Scandals

What went wrong, and what the Church said and did about it, in her own official words.

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Clergy sexual abuse and the Church's responsePriests, deacons and religious sexually abused children and young people. In many places bishops and religious superiors failed to act on what they knew, or concealed it. This timeline gives the Church's own official statements and measures on the abuse and its cover-up, in date order.16 quotations, from 2001 to 2023