As a Catholic Church official was interrogated by a prosecutor about at least 15 priests accused of sexual abuse whose assignments he handled, the defendant said that he would take any tack that he could to get the clerics to stay in line.
The trial of Monsignor William J. Lynn for allegedly endangering the welfare of two men who testified that they were sexually abused by two priests has taken two months so far, in part, because of the length of time it has taken to read into the record all of the documents that Lynn and others generated about handling the complaints against those 15 priests and others.
