THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDAL
Episode 226 | Historical Events — Mysterious Events
In this History episode we focus on the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal and the Boston Globe's 2002 Spotlight investigation that exposed it — not as isolated incidents but as a deliberate, documented institutional system. The transfer system moved abusive priests from parish to parish without disclosure to receiving communities. Confidential settlements bound victims to silence. Cardinal Bernard Law had known about Father John Geoghan's abuse history from his first year in Boston and transferred him repeatedly rather than removing him.
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