At " Mass of Atonement" Listecki Must Explain Leaving Wauwatosa Priest with Years of Child Sex Abuse Reports Working with Children

SNAP Wisconsin
April 22, 2013

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SNAP Milwaukee 4-22 Media Advisory:

At “Mass of Atonement” Listecki must explain leaving Wauwatosa priest with years of child sex abuse reports working with children

Group wants Listecki to “atone” by immediately placing Marsicek on church sex offender registry

Dozens of clergy known to have raped or abused children and minors still being kept secret by church officials

WHO/WHAT

Victims of clergy sexual abuse who are members of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org/SNAPwisconsin.com), after displaying childhood photos and candles in a makeshift memorial, will discuss before attending a “Mass of Atonement” conducted by Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki, the recent and ongoing revelations concerning Fr. Robert Marsicek.

Marsicek, pastor of two Milwaukee area parishes and grade schools, Pius X and Mother of Good Council, was suspended from his job in March after it was learned that he was under a current child sex abuse police investigation in Wauwatosa. Marsicek, however, was already under a police investigation in California since last May for child sexual assaults that took place in the late 1980’s and early 1990s’. And in recent years, according to the Wauwatosa police report, complaints by parents and others about Marsicek were reported to Milwaukee church officials and known by both Archbishop Listecki and Archbishop—now Cardinal Archbishop of New York—Timothy Dolan.

Both Listecki and Dolan left Marsicek working with children and neither archbishop notified parents or parishioners of the complaints against Marsicek or his history in California. Survivors of Marsicek are also coming forward to SNAP and law enforcement who were sexually assaulted by him when working in the Green Bay Diocese in the 1970’s (see Marsicek’s assignment history).

SNAP has long insisted that Dolan, and now Listecki, must release the complete list of all known clergy child sex offenders who have worked or are working in the archdiocese. Approximately half of these clergy belong to religious orders assigned to the archdiocese, and are not on the current archdiocese published list. In a court agreement last month in Federal Bankruptcy Court the archdiocese is required to release the church file of any cleric who is on or at any time added to the registry.

WHERE

Outside of St. John Vianney Parish, 1755 N. Calhoun Rd, Brookfield

WHEN

TODAY, Thursday, April 22, 6:30 p.m. Remarks by victims will be at 6:45 p.m. Mass of Atonement will begin at 7:00 p.m.

CONTACT

Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director, 414.429.7259

John Pilmaier, SNAP Wisconsin Director, 414.336.8575

Mike Sneesby, SNAP Milwaukee Director, 414.915.4374