Kathleen McChesney Steps Down

The first child-protection monitor for the U.S. Roman Catholic Church said in an interview the day before she steps down that the unrelenting focus on bishops' failures to rein in sexually abusive priests had obscured the efforts of countless diocesan workers and volunteers dedicated to helping victims.

McChesney is departing as the church reviews the policy she was hired to help implement. Included in its many provisions is a requirement that all guilty clerics be barred from church work, including saying Mass in public and working as parish priests.

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