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Volume 68, Issue 130,
Thursday, April 10, 2003
News Church critic calls for full disclosure Cougar News Staff Father Thomas P. Doyle, who in 1985 was the first to blow the whistle on festering sexual abuse and pedophilia among members of the Catholic clergy, spoke to a UH Law Center audience Wednesday, calling for an open disclosure to resolve the scandal.
In the lecture, Doyle also criticized the hierarchy of the church and the attempts it made to control the situation. Doyle contends that disclosure will weaken this power structure. As a member of the Vatican Embassy in Washington, D.C., Doyle composed a report addressing the issue and had it distributed to Catholic bishops throughout the United States and Britain. According to Doyle, that report was largely ignored, possibly contributing to the ruin of the church, which last year was cast into the public view when the Boston Globe reported cases of pedophilia among the clergy. Those reports forced the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, who was archbishop of the Boston diocese. His lecture, held in the Hendricks Heritage Room, was titled "A Higher
Calling: Reporting Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church." It was a part
of the law schoolis Doherty Chair Ethics Series.
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