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Bishops Hogan and Adamec were primarily to blame for the decades of concealment. Those bishops "took actions that further endangered children as they placed their desire to avoid public scandal over the well-being of innocent children ... Priests were returned to ministry with full knowledge they were child predators."
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Catholic population of 44,000. By his final year as bishop in 1920, there were 148 priests, 91 parishes, 42 parochial schools with 11,369 students, and a
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Bartchak acknowledged that the diocese between the 1950s and 1990s transferred dozens of priests accused of child abuse to small town parishes. . Bartchak also acknowledged that Adamec had created a system to supply compensation to sexual abuse victims to ensure
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February 2020, the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown was hit with a wave of new lawsuits.
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1374:"Bishop Howard Joseph Carroll [Catholic-Hierarchy]"
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1197:. Milwaukee: M. H. Wiltzius. 1902. p. 199.
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