It was a recap of the facts, not the article, facts that can easily be verified.
So says the Vatican. No one else says "civil authorities knew about the allegations."
Even the attack article of the New York Times, "Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys", does not question the report that the civil authorities were notified and declined to prosecute. But of course we know how pro-Catholic the NYT is.
Where’s the evidence that civil authorities were notified?