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All Is Not Forgiven
The investigation found that reforms promised by the Vatican after the priest sex abuse scandal were ignored. Only when confronted with the findings of the investigation did the Archdiocese of Los Angeles admit that its background check of priests did not go beyond reviewing a letter from a former superior.
Tags: sex abuse; priests; Vatican; Catholic Church
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Spiritually Bankrupt
The investigation revealed the coordinated lengths to which the Roman Catholic Church was protecting its vast wealth from sex abuse victims.
Tags: sex abuse; Catholic Church; priests; ; Pope Benedict XVI
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Top Secret America
The story covers the country's vast national security and intelligence system and determines if it is really fulfilling its purpose of keeping citizens safe. It details the organizations and private companies that are part of system, but kept from public view.
Tags: national security; Top Secret America; oversight; terrorism; 9/11
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Top Secret America
The series examines the national security and intelligence structure in a post-9/11 America that is so vast, no one can be sure if it is fulfilling it's purpose.
Tags: national security; CIA: intelligence; top-secret; national intelligence
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"Money and Influence Peddling in the Vatican"
Reporter Jason Berry took an in-depth look at how sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was allowed to continue. His series of stories that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, focused on Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, a prominent figure in the Church. Berry revealed that Maciel, who has allegedly sexually abused his seminarians since the 1950s, has been making payments to various Vatican officials that have "insulated the priest from punishment."
Tags: Vatican; Catholic; Priest; Father; Legion of Christ; sexual abuse; seminarians; Rome; Pope John Paul
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An Irish Tragedy
"This is the story of how Irish immigrant clergy, who had helped to build the American Catholic church in years past, undermined that church by their widespread sexual abuse of children. It is a sad tale that had gone untold, until now."
Tags: Irish; Catholic; sexual abuse; priests; Vatican;
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Careless Detention
Four-part series on the medical treatment of immigrant detainees in the United States. Goldstein and Priest exposed the shoddy, unethical and, at times, fatal treatment of immigrants during their detentions and as they were being deported to their native countries. Their stories led readers deep inside America's network of immigration prisons--a world that had grown exponentially in the years since 9/11, yet remained largely unknown and hidden from view. Their stories documented the deaths of 83 detainees. And in one of the most stunning revelation, Goldstein and Priest disclosed the previously unreported scope of a practice of forcible sedation of immigrants with dangerous psychotropic drugs during deportation to their native countries; they found more than 250 instances in which the drugs were used on people with no history of psychiatric problems. Their stories also revealed that the most prevalent cause of death among the immigrant detainees is suicide, including the hangings of detainees known to be in such fragile mental health that they had been assigned suicide watchers. They profiled the slipshod treatment of an ailing Korean immigrant, a legal U.S. resident for three decades detained in a rail in the Arizona desert, with a history of recurrent cancer. And they documented the flawed medical practices, bureaucratic ineptitude, sloppy record-keeping and staff shortages that cause detainees who are sick to suffer and sometimes to die.
Tags: detained immigrants; September 11th; 9/11; medical treatment of prisoners; immigration prison; HIPAA
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The Other Walter Reed
"Wounded veterans of the war in Iraq were housed in substandard quarters at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and faced neglect and bureaucracy as they sought medical care." Priest and Hull penetrated the secretive world of the Army's premier medical facility, Walter Reed Hospital, to document in chilling detail the callous mistreatment and neglect of America's war-wounded. Their expose — fueled by immersion reporting and fine narrative storytelling — fired a shot heard around the world and led to decisive action at the Pentagon.
Tags: veteran; military; Walter Reed; wounded; outpatient; medical facility; medicine; health; psychological; Public Service Pulitzer winner
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A Trail of Abuse
KCTV reporters found "The sexual abuse of boys at the First Baptist Church of Greenwood, MO by a music pastor, who, our investigation exposed, had a history of abusing boys in other churches. Our investigation also uncovered that the church pastor had a long relationship with the abuser and that despite pleas from police Pastor Mike Roy and other church officials refused to cooperate with police in the criminal investigation.â€
Tags: church abuse; sexual abuse; priest
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Study Reveals Vast Scope of Priest Abuse
A study by the LA Times shows the number of Catholic priests from Los Angeles Archdiocese that have been accused of sexual abuse since 1950.
Tags: Priest; sexual abuse; child molestation; catholic; archdiocese; scandal