BISHOPS PUSHED TO RELEASE NAMES OF ACCUSED CLERGY

A group of survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has called for Canadian bishops to follow in the footsteps of some U.S. counterparts and release the names of clergy facing misconduct allegations. The survivors have travelled to this week’s meeting of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in Cornwall, Ont., to ask officials to publicize names. So far, the bishops have pushed back. “In any other institution, if you’re protecting people who have offended, who have broken the law, nobody would stand for that. But it seems like, because they’re hiding behind the guise of the church, they’re not being challenged in this way,” said Gemma Hickey, pictured, whose case against a priest was settled out of court. “It’s not up to survivors to come forward to release the names. It’s up to the institutions that have harmed us.”