Thomas P. Doyle: Fighting to Prevent Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

“We put it together in good faith with every confidence that U.S. bishops would respond to what we believed to be a problem they were not aware of and would respond in an effective way, especially toward victims.” Interestingly, in the report they predicted the Church could pay potentially a billion dollars to defendants in diocesan lawsuits over the next decade. The claim would later prove prophetic.