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In a major turning point in its nearly 3-year-old bankruptcy, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on Monday is scheduled to make public thousands of pages of documents detailing the sexual abuse of minors by priests going back decades, and what church leaders did and did not do in response.
The records will contain parts of 42 priests' personnel files as well as depositions of former Archbishop Timothy Dolan, now cardinal of New York; retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland; retired Bishop Richard Sklba; and now-defrocked priest Daniel Budzynski.
Most of the information, which is being released as part of an agreement in the archdiocese's bankruptcy proceedings, has never been seen publicly.
"Needless to say, there are some terrible things described in many of the documents," Archbishop Jerome Listecki said in his weekly letter to local Catholics in advance of the release. To those deciding to read the files, Listecki advised, "prepare to be shocked."
According to interviews and court records, the documents are expected to include: details about how church officials shuttled abusive priests from one parish or school to the next without divulging their histories; correspondence between the archdiocese and the Vatican, which has the final word on defrocking priests; evidence that the archdiocese under Dolan paid some priests to accept that decision without protest; and graphic accounts of sexual assault of young people.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/prepare-to-be-shocked-milwaukee-archbishop-warns-of-priest-sex-files-b9944386z1-213713061.html
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)What utter bullshit.
snot
(10,529 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)i had to report. If i didn't i could go to jail. WTF? How do organizations get allowed to decide?
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Jail is for the little people and pot smokers.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)"The archdiocese on Saturday issued a series of talking points and a Q&A for priests and parishes to address the issue. ... it says, it decided to release the records "as part of our commitment to open and candid communication."
rurallib
(62,416 posts)when they were finally backed into a corner.
And they held meetings and publicly expressed contrition
But I have yet to hear an apology from any one.
ETA - hope that fucking arrogant Dolan takes a dive