A Priest Confesses
As American Roman Catholics observe Holy Week, the church is facing its most serious crisis in decades, the burgeoning charges of sexual abuse by priests, a story NEWSWEEK first put on the cover in early March. This week David France follows up with Neil Conway’s confession about abusing eight teenage boys. It was “awful and hard to hear,” France says; still, he believes Conway’s story needs to be told: “Rightly or not, too often the church has seemed more interested in covering up the problem than fixing it.” That’s getting harder to do.
