NEW YORK–Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York named a former federal judge and prosecutor on Sept. 20 to independently review how the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has handled allegations of sexual abuse, after what Dolan said was a “summer of hell.”
Barbara Jones, who retired as a U.S. district judge in 2013, said she and a team of lawyers would have unfettered access to all materials as they reviewed sex-abuse claim policies and procedures in the country’s second-largest archdiocese.
