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  • Penn State scandal "opens wound" in Catholic Church

    11/16/2011 5:35:35 AM PST · by TSgt · 55 replies
    Reuters ^ | 11/16/2011 | Jason Tomassini
    (Reuters) - The top U.S. Catholic bishop said on Monday that a child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University "opens a wound" within the church, which remains scarred from its own similar controversies and cover-ups. "We know what you're going through," Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, told a news conference in Baltimore where hundreds of bishops have gathered for their national meeting.