PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Catholic bishops’ point man on sexual abuse has said that the hierarchy’s credibility on fixing the problem is “shredded” and that the situation is comparable to the Reformation, when “the episcopacy, the regular clergy, even the papacy were discredited.” Bishop R. Daniel Conlon of Joliet, Ill., told a conference of staffers who oversee child safety programs…
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