ILLINOIS
Daily Southtown
Sunday, February 12, 2006
By David Clohessy
After all these painful years, scandalous exposes, criminal investigations, civil lawsuits and alleged church reforms, why are we still seeing cases of clergy sex abuse and cover-up by our highest church officials?
Over the past few weeks, Chicago-area Catholics have learned that:
Joliet's bishop kept an accused molester, the Rev. James Burnett, in active ministry for at least two months after allegations against him first surfaced,
Chicago's archbishop kept an accused molester, the Rev. Daniel McCormack, in active ministry for six years after allegations against him first surfaced.
Chicago Catholic school officials received verbal and written complaints about that same pastor, yet apparently did nothing.