"This terrible history recorded here today is history." --Archbishop Wilton Gregory, then president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in his remarks accompanying the release of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Study on "The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States 1950-2002" and the National Review Board's "Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States," February 27, 2004.

Grant Gallicho joined Commonweal as an intern and was an associate editor for the magazine until 2015. 

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