The probe includes the tenure of Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, who becomes head of the Archdiocese of Washington in late May.
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, left, designated by Pope Francis to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, and Cardinal Donald Wuerl, attend a news conference April 4 at the Archdiocese of Washington Pastoral Center in Hyattsville, Md. Gregory will succeed Wuerl.
Pope Francis in early April named Gregory to replace Cardinal Donald Wuerl, a longtime administrator in Pittsburgh and Washington who resigned in the fall after coming under fire for his handling of abuse cases. Wuerl’s handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church was scrutinized in a grand jury report out of Pennsylvania over the summer. That report led multiple state prosecutors to open investigations of their own.
Carr told the Atlanta media outlets that the investigation will be handled by Georgia’s Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council. If any prosecutions come out of the investigation, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, they’ll be handled on a local level, he said. “In the spirit of continued transparency and concern over the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States, Bishop Gregory Hartmayer of the Diocese of Savannah and I offered our full support and cooperation to Attorney General Chris Carr for a third-party file review of both Georgia dioceses,” Gregory said.
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