Read 'Em and Weep: Bishop Accountability Publishes Data on Claims against Philly Priests

By Susan Matthews
The Catholics4change
January 23, 2013

http://catholics4change.com/2013/01/23/read-em-and-weep-bishop-accountability-publishes-data-on-claims-against-philly-priests/

[The Philadelphia Archive - BishopAccountability.org]

Click here to read: “Watchdog group releases data on claims against Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests,”

Editor’s note: If you couldn’t attend Msgr. William Lynn’s trial, here’s your chance to examine the documents submitted as evidence. “Read ‘em and weep” was never a more appropriate statement. The Church hierarchy has dealt the Philly faithful a bad hand. – Susan Matthews

Excerpt from Martin’s article: “The group, BishopAccountability.org, culled the documents from evidence introduced at last year’s landmark child-endangerment trial of Msgr. William J. Lynn.

The records include confidential church memos, e-mails, psychological evaluations, and correspondence among archdiocese officials, accusers, and more than 20 priests who served in area parishes over the last half-century.

The allegations are not new – all were aired in two grand jury reports or at Lynn’s trial – and the accused priests they mention are dead, defrocked, or removed from ministry. But the website offers the first unfiltered public look at details of those claims, and of documents locked for years in what the archdiocese called its Secret Archives.

Many were drafted by Lynn and approved by Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua or by their predecessors. They chronicle what church officials knew and did after a priest was accused of abusing a minor.”