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The New York Times reports:
More than 450 credibly accused child sex abusers have ministered in the Catholic Church in Illinois over almost seven decades, the office of the state’s attorney general, Kwame Raoul, said Tuesday in an investigative report. That is more than four times the number that the church had publicly disclosed before 2018, when the state began its investigation. The 696-page report found that clergy members and lay religious brothers had abused at least 1,997 children since 1950 in the state’s six dioceses.
One case among many documented in the report involves Thomas Francis Kelly, a priest who abused more than 15 boys ranging in age from 11 to 17 in several parishes in the 1960s and 1970s. The priest’s tactics were well enough known that they became a topic of conversation among the victim’s peers. Two other victims of Father Kelly shared similar experiences with investigators. The archdiocese moved the priest from parish to parish, the attorney general’s report notes. The priest died in 1990.
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In response to the report, Cardinal Blase Cupich [photo above], the Archbishop of Chicago, claims that the church in Illinois “has been at the forefront of dealing with sexual abuse of minors for many years.” Cupich last appeared here in 2018 when he fired a “death to gays” priest who held a ceremonial burning of a rainbow flag. Later that year an “ex-gay” group raised over $100,000 for the priest on a Christian crowdfunding site called “Funding Morality.”
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