From Fox5:
In his first public comments since the report, Wuerl told his parishioners on Wednesday, “The pain and the suffering are something that we need to take responsibility for.”
Following his Wednesday service, Wuerl sat down one-on-one to talk with FOX 5’s Tom Fitzgerald about the troubling report and stated he would not resign from his post. In defending his actions, Wuerl has written to his own priests and issued statements arguing that the way the church deals with child sex abuse cases today differs from how it dealt with it years ago, calling it an “evolution. My efforts from the time that I reached Pittsburgh onto today, I’ve tried to do my very best to deal with this whole question of allegations against a priest. Now, remember, we’re dealing with a long spectrum of time so how we dealt with things in the late 80s and early 90s is different than the way we would today,” Wuerl said. “How do you deal with an allegation, and remember now when an allegation comes forward that allegation often times ends up being one word against another.”