Veteran Editor of Church Scandal Coverage Weighs in On Latest in Europe

ProPublica's new blogger, Marian Wang, has a good take on the recent coverage of the Catholic Church sex scandal in Europe.

She interviewed Walter Robinson, a former editor at The Boston Globe who helped oversee their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the scandal at local Boston churches years ago.

“I don't know of any archdiocese where the archbishop or the cardinal archbishop was not kept fully informed and in most cases was not heavily involved in decision-making involving any priest who was accused of abusing minors,” Robinson says in the Q&A. “In every diocese in the U.S., including those headed by cardinals, there was personal knowledge by the cardinal archbishop when news of abuse surfaced. It was true in Boston, it was true in L.A., it was true in Chicago. The fact we have one archbishop in Munich that claims not to know anything is enough to make one suspicious.”

See it all HERE.