On the same day Bishop Emeritus Richard Malone’s resignation became official, a former Boston Globe reporter who helped expose clergy sex abuse in New England in the 2000s was in Buffalo.
“The timing is just stunning,” said Matt Carroll, who used to be on the newspaper’s Spotlight team. The professor at Northeastern University spoke Wednesday night in Buffalo about the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize winning investigation that shed light on the sexual abuse of children by priests in the Boston area and led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law.
He said there are similarities between what happened in Boston and what’s currently going on in Buffalo.
“In Boston, we had a bishop who was covering and a cardinal who was covering up and continued to cover up, he was sort of slowly killed by all these leaks of information that were coming out to the courts and everything about all these bad priests and they couldn’t get in front of it,” he said.
Malone was accused of covering up clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo and even allowing priests accused of abuse to continue working.
“Bishop Malone did not learn the lessons from Boston where he worked for a couple of years and try to get in front of the situation several years ago and try to just get all the information out about bad priests, instead it’s kind of festered and bad stuff has happened,” Carroll said.
Buffalo resident Donna Grace attended Carroll’s talk. She said she’s not surprised Malone stepped down in the wake of the crisis.
“Personally I’m a very radical person. I would like to see the whole patriarchy, the religious patriarchy dismantled because I think it’s very destructive and I think that it’s a pedophilia protection racket,” Grace said.
Looking ahead, Carroll said he doesn’t know what the next steps will ultimately be for the Diocese of Buffalo.
“They brought in a new cardinal [in Boston], who is a lot more transparent and we’ll see if they do the same thing here, try to get a bishop who is a lot more accountable and more transparent so people can regain a respect for the church,” he said.
The organizers of Wednesday night’s talk said this event was planned a month in advance and it’s just a coincidence it fell on the day Bishop Malone resigned.
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