The National Review Board (full name: National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People) is a committee created in 2002 by the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States. Founded in 2001 after the merger of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic C ...
in order to monitor the implementation of the
Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
There have been many lawsuits, criminal prosecutions, and scandals over sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in the United States of America.
The issue of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests was first publicized in 1985 when a Louisia ...
in the wake of the
clerical abuse scandal in the United States.
The Board was also charged with investigating the scandal, which it did in part by commissioning the
John Jay College to conduct a survey of Church records in order to define the nature and scope of the abuse committed by priests over the period between 1950 and 2002. The results of that survey were released in 2004 in what has come to be known as the "
John Jay Report
''The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States'', commonly known as the ''John Jay Report'', is a 2004 report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, commissioned by the U. ...
" or "Nature and Scope report." In parallel with the John Jay College survey the Board conducted interviews with a variety of people, both inside and outside the Church, who were well placed to comment on the scandal, and on the basis of these interviews prepared a more broad-ranging report of its own.
Whereas the John Jay College report was (as intended) primarily a factual summary of the data collected in the College's survey of Church records, the Board's own report sought to interpret these data and its other findings in order to explain why the "epidemic" of clerical abuse had occurred and to identify the appropriate steps to avoid any repetition.
See also
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Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is a pontifical commission within the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church instituted by Pope Francis on 22 March 2014 as an advisory agency serving the pope. Since 5 June 2022, the Commission ...
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Anne M. Burke, interim chair from 2002 to 2004
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Francesco Cesareo, President of
Assumption College and chair since 2013
References
External links
National Review BoardAnne Burke Papers
DePaul University Special Collections and Archives
Christian organizations established in 2002
Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals in the United States
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
2002 establishments in the United States
DePaul University Special Collections and Archives holdings
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