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 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (US ...
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
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice (John Jay) is a public college focused on criminal justice and located in New York City. It is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY). John Jay was founded as the only liberal arts co ...
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.S ...
" 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 ( it, Pontificia Commissione per la Tutela dei Minori) is a pontifical commission within the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church instituted by Pope Francis on 22 March 2014 as an advisory age ...
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Anne M. Burke
Anne Marie Burke (née McGlone; born February 3, 1944) is an American jurist who served on the Illinois Supreme Court from 2006 until 2022. She served a term as the chief justice from 2019 until 2022. Burke had previously been appointed to the Il ...
, interim chair from 2002 to 2004
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Francesco Cesareo
Francesco C. Cesareo (often called "Prez Chez" by his students) is an American academic administrator and historian who has served as the president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts since October 12, 2007. Cesareo is also the c ...
, 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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