The Chicago Tribune published an article today in which Cardinal Francis George announced a $12.7 million settlement with 16 victims of clerical sexual abuse.
The cardinal also unveiled his own sworn deposition that, to quote the Tribune, "revealed a flawed and secretive system where priests and bishops employed by the archdiocese to this day protected their own."
Here is a link to the full article.

Last November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops elected Cardinal George to a three-year term as president starting in November, 2008.
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Toledo, Ohio
Aug. 13, 2008