Jason Berry profiled in Washington Post

by Tom Roberts on Sep. 21, 2011

The Post yesterday printed a revealing profile of freelance writer Jason Berry, whose reporting in the 1980s provided the first deep look at what would become the international clergy sex abuse scandal. Still a believer, still going to church and still reporting on the church's dark secrets, Berry explains to the interviewer why he stays. It was on Berry's initial reporting that NCR based its earliest coverage of the sex abuse scandal. The first story appeared in June, 1985. His latest book, Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church, examines how money flows through church structures with little accountability for how it's collected and how it's used.

“We didn’t give up on

Submitted by cashelguy2 (not verified) on Sep. 21, 2011.

“We didn’t give up on democracy because of Watergate,” he says, “and I won’t give up on the church because of corrupt bishops.”

Well put, Jason. Thank you for all the work you do. Where would the church be without you? Better still, where would the predator priests and the bishops who enable them be without you? In ministry, no doubt.

Jason Berry's name is entered

Submitted by L.Newington (not verified) on Sep. 24, 2011.

Jason Berry's name is entered into posterity, so too Thomas P. Doyle.
Lift up the rug and you will find them both, as far as downunder, a country usually left behind.

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