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Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich ‘perplexed’ by attorney general’s report on abuse

May 26, 2023

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CWN Editor's Note: Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has said that he is “genuinely perplexed” by a report from the attorney general of Illinois citing unreported cases of child abuse by Catholic clerics.

The cardinal said that archdiocesan officials have relayed all known reports of abuse to government authorities. He questioned why, if prosecutors had heard other reports, they had not shared the information with church officials.

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Pius V (1504-1572). He joined the Dominicans at the age of fourteen; he was sixty-two when he was elected Pope. His reign, though short, was one of the most fruitful of the sixteenth century. To Protestantism, which had proclaimed the Reformation, St. Pius replied by…

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