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ByJoeMandak The Associated Press ALTOONA, PA. Two Catho- lic bishops who led a small Pennsylvaniadiocesehelped cover up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children by more than 50 priests and other religious leaders over a 40-year period, according to a grand jury report that portrays the church as hold- ing such sway over law en- forcement that it helped se- lect a police chief. The 147-page report is- sued Tuesday on sex- ual abuse in the Altoona- Johnstown Diocese, home to nearly 100,000 Roman Catholics, was based partly on evidence from a secret diocesan archive opened through a search warrant over the summer. In announcing the find- ings, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane said the diocese's two previous bishops "placed their desire to avoid public scandal over the well-being of children." No criminal charges are being filed in the case be- cause some abusers have died, the statute of limita- tions has expired, or vic- tims are too traumatized to testify, she said. Of the victims, Kane said: "Their souls were killed as children. They weren't out playing baseball; they were trying to avoid priests." The report was especially critical of Bishops James Hogan and Joseph Adamec. Hogan, who headed the dio- cese from 1966 to 1986, died in 2005. Adamec, who suc- ceeded him, retired in 2011. Adamec cited possible self-incrimination in re- fusing to testify before the grand jury. But in a court filing, his attorney said the accusations against the 80-year-old Adamec are unfounded. He required 14 priests accused under his watch to undergo psy- chiatric evaluation, the fil- ing said. Nine of them were suspended or removed from ministry, and the five who were reinstated never re-of- fended, his attorney wrote. "Bishop Adamec's han- dling of abuse allegations has no similarity to other clergy abuse scandals," his attorney wrote. The current bishop, Mark Bartchak, is not ac- cused of any wrongdoing. He recently suspended a few priests named as al- leged abusers in the report, though the grand jury said it remains "concerned the purge of predators is tak- ing too long." In a statement, Bart- chak said: "I deeply regret any harm that has come to children." The clergy sex abuse cri- sis erupted in 2002, when The Boston Globe reported that the Boston Archdiocese had transferred child-mo- lesting priests from parish to parish to protect them. Similar scandals involving hundreds of offenders and victims have since erupted across the U.S. and beyond. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops estimates that American dioceses have paid nearly $4 billion since 1950 to settle claims with victims. The Altoona-Johnstown report said that the abuse was committed in such places as campsites, confes- sionals, an orphanage and the cathedral, and that Ho- gan covered up allegations by transferring offending priests, including one who was sent to a school for boys. One diocesan offi- cial under Hogan, Monsi- gnor Philip Saylor, told the grand jury that church offi- cials held such clout in the eight-county diocese that "the police and civil au- thorities would often defer to the diocese" when priests were accused of abuse, the report said. Saylor told the grand jury that the mayors of Altoona and Johnstown even consulted him on their choices for police chief in the 1980s. "Politicians of Blair County were afraid of Mon- signor Saylor, and he appar- ently persuaded the mayor to appoint me as the chief of police," former Altoona Police Chief Peter Starr tes- tified. The Rev. Thomas Doyle, a Catholic canon lawyer turned advocate for vic- tims, said it was common for law enforcement in heav- ily Catholic areas to defer to the church in handling ac- cusations against priests. He said the number of victims and accused priests in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, which ranks in the bottom half of the list of the nearly 200 U.S. dioceses by Catholic population, did not surprise him: "I've seen di- oceses the same size or smaller where you have sig- nificant numbers of perpe- trators and victims." The report said Ada- mec or his staff threatened some alleged victims with excommunication and gen- erally worked harder to hide or settle allegations of abuse than to discipline the priests accused. "The diocese will not apologize or take responsi- bility for its dark history," the report said. In a practice seen in other dioceses,thebishopcreateda "payout chart" to help guide how much victims would receive from the church, the report said. Victims fondled over their clothes were to be paid $10,000 to $25,000; fondled under their clothes or subjected to masturba- tion, $15,000 to $40,000; subjected to forced oral sex, $25,000 to $75,000; sub- jected to forced sodomy or intercourse, $50,000 to $175,000. PENNSYLVANIA DIOCESE Grand jury: 2 bishops hid sex abuse of hundreds of children J.D.CAVRICH—ALTOONAMIRRORVIAAP Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane speaks about the 147-page report on sexual abuse in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese was made public at a news conference, Tuesday in Pennsylvania. By Tia Goldenberg The Associated Press JERUSALEM A recent gathering of American Reform rabbis in Jerusa- lem was meant to cele- brate the small gains the liberal Jewish movement has made in Israel in re- cent years. But a series of comments by Israeli offi- cials denigrating the group marred the event, reflect- ing an awkward relation- ship that many fear is alienating the world's sec- ond-largest Jewish com- munity from Israel. The Reform Movement is the largest stream of Judaism in the United States, claiming to repre- sent 1.5 million people, and its members provide a key source of financial support and political advocacy for Israel. But the movement is marginal in Israel, where religious affairs are dom- inated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment. Israeli lawmakers, both secular and ultra-Or- thodox, have repeatedly disparaged the group, questioning their Juda- ism and accusing them of promoting Jewish as- similation. "How do you ask Jews around the world to sup- port Israel politically, ec- onomically, socially ... and at the same time you have these ministers who say to our people 'you're not really Jewish' or 'you don't have a place here in Israel?' That incongruity is a real problem for us," said Rabbi Steven Fox, the chief executive of the Cen- tral Conference of Amer- ican Rabbis, which held its septennial convention in Israel last week. The group represents 2,000 rabbis. RELIGION US rabbis warn about alienation from Israel Washington 48/29 New York 49/26 Miami 83/66 Atlanta 54/37 Detroit 28/17 Houston 73/60 Chicago 31/25 Minneapolis 33/24 Kansas City 62/36 El Paso 84/49 Denver 63/32 Billings 55/30 Los Angeles 76/54 San Francisco 65/55 Seattle 55/46 AIRQUALITYFORECAST Whatitmeans:0-50:Good; 51-100:Moderate; 101-150:Unhealthyforsensitivepeople; 151+:Unhealthyforall. 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Extreme Very high High Moderate Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hoursofsunlight River Levels SacramentoRiver Flood 7a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: THURSDAY 64° 50° FRIDAY 64° 53° An aft ernoon sho we r in spots A passing morning shower SATURDAY 61° 49° Hea vy ra in dev eloping; windy SUNDAY 56° 43° Br ee zy w ith periods of rain TODAY 70° 53° Pleasant with intervals of clouds and sun. Rain this evening followed by a shower or two late tonight. High ....................................................................... 69° Low ........................................................................ 43° Normal high ......................................................... 63° Normal low ........................................................... 42° Record high ............................................. 80° in 1936 Record low .............................................. 30° in 1939 Humidity noon today ........................................ 62% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................ Trace Month to date .................................................. Trace Normal month to date ..................................... 0.15" Season to date ................................................ 14.10" Normal season to date .................................. 17.59" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ............................................. Not available Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ........... Moderate 4 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 6:41 a.m. 6:02 p.m. 1:36 a.m. 11:50 a.m. Thursday 6:39 a.m. 6:03 p.m. 2:29 a.m. 12:40 p.m. 11 hr., 21 min. Mar8 New Mar15 First Full Mar23 Last Mar31 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.40 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.38 ....... -0.02 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.93 ....... -0.07 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.10 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.80 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.72 ....... -0.08 BlackButte ....................448.29..............49,377 .....34.4% LakeOroville..................769.32.........1,864,668 .....49.9% LakeShasta ...................997.11.........2,766,120 .....60.8% LakeTrinity..................2237.83............854,264 .....32.3% Whiskeytown...............1198.91............206,890 .....85.8% Weather Trivia ™ Highland, plateau and valley are types of what? Glaciers. 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