Pope John Paul II covered up child abuse as cardinal in Poland, says report
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That’s just how it was done in the Church back then, and probably still would be, if it weren’t for investigative reporting, social media, and a changed social climate in which victims don’t feel as restrained in reporting abuse, and people are willing to listen to them, even to the point where a priest so charged is seen as “guilty until proven innocent”. (And even then, some will murmur and say “yes, but you know he still did it”.)
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