Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. Why Was It Ignored for 15 Years?

In May 1985, Jason Berry, a Catholic journalist in Louisiana, wrote his first piece on child sexual abuse in the church for the National Catholic Reporter and the Times of Acadiana. So why was the "Watergate of the Catholic Church" ignored?

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