1. A grand jury found Catholic leaders across Pennsylvania covered up the sexual abuse of at least 1,000 children by priests over a period of 70 years.

The report, the broadest examination by a U.S. agency of child abuse in the Catholic Church, found that bishops and other leaders persuaded victims not to report cases of abuse and police officers not to investigate them.

It catalogs horrific cases of abuse, including a priest who raped a young girl in the hospital after she had her tonsils out.