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	Victims of Abuse by Clergy Wary of Choice for New Archbishop By Ann-Elise Henzl WUWM November 14, 2009 http://www.wuwm.com/programs/news/view_news.php?articleid=5398 [with audio] Early Saturday, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced that Jerome Listecki has been named archbishop-designate. He will replace Timothy Dolan, who left the post earlier this year. Listecki is bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse, where he was installed in March 2005. Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) are concerned about Listecki's appointment. They have questions about his record in rooting out abuse by clergy in La Crosse. SNAP's Midwest Director Peter Isely says Listecki has refused to meet with SNAP in the past, and has encouraged victims to take their allegations to him -- not the police. "We're supposed to be in the days of transparency and accountability, and so we hope that Catholics in the public are going to be warm to him, but also very insistent that we have suffered enough in this archdiocese, we've had enough pain. The time of sexual abuse secrets is over with," Isely says. Isely says SNAP will immediately try to schedule an open meeting with the new archbishop. Listecki is scheduled to be installed in January.
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