Report details ‘staggering’ sex abuse in Archdiocese of Baltimore
April 06, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Maryland’s attorney general has released a 456-page report on the sexual abuse of minors committed by clergy and religious in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
“Over 600 children are known to have been abused by the 156 people included in this Report, but the number is likely far higher,” the attorney general found (p. 9). Eleven abusers worked at one parish between 1964 and 2004.
The attorney general offered timelines on the ministries of each of the priests and religious who committed abuse. Ten were Jesuits, six were Xaverians, six were Capuchin Franciscans, and six were Redemptorists.
The vast majority of first incidents of abuse took place between 1955 and 1989 and peaked in the late 1960s and 1970s, according to the archdiocese, which responded with a pastoral letter and FAQs.
At the time, the Archdiocese of Baltimore was marked by widespread dissent from Catholic teaching on sexual morality, with 72 priests signing Father Charles Curran’s statement of dissent from Humanae Vitae within weeks of its publication in 1968.
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