CASES CONTINUE TO LOOM OVER CHURCH

USA TODAY Network reporters at the Pacific Daily News have uncovered scores of allegations involving 14

Catholic priests in Guam, where a former altar boy’s accusation that Archbishop Anthony Apuron sexually abused him in the 1970s has prompted other revelations.

But abuse cases also have roiled Catholic parishes elsewhere in the nation, sometimes decades after evidence of the crimes first emerged.

POOL PHOTO BY MARK HENLE Former Phoenix bishop Thomas O’Brien admitted protecting at least 50 priests accused of sexual abuse. Then, years later, he was accused of abusing a boy beginning in the late 1970s.