Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Clergy address sexual abuse by priests and the Catholic Church’s history of covering it up
Nearly 200 Catholic bishops and high-ranking clergy are in Vatican City for a meeting on child sex abuse within the church -- and efforts that individual diocese around the world made to cover it up.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readNearly 200 Catholic bishops and high-ranking clergy are in Vatican City for a meeting on child sex abuse within the church -- and efforts that individual diocese around the world made to cover it up. Pope Francis has vowed to take action to protect children, but there is a lot of skepticism around whether the church can police itself.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Brandon McGinley
Editor at Eternal World Television Network, Catholic writer based in Pittsburgh
Rachel Donadio
Paris-based journalist, contributing writer for The Atlantic
The full episode
2 of 4World’s clergy meet over controversy within Catholicism: sexual abuse and coverup- 0:00In Venezuela, conflict intensifies over opening the border to humanitarian aid
- 8:25Clergy address sexual abuse by priests and the Catholic Church’s history of covering it upYou’re reading this
- 19:54In ‘Paddleton,’ bromance and coping with cancer
- 32:26Why African American roller skating culture is under siege