Cardinal Dolan knew of reports …

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Cardinal Dolan knew of reports against suspended Milwaukee priest but left him working with children

Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director (Milwaukee)

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, when Archbishop of Milwaukee, knew of concerns by parents and teachers about Fr. Robert Marsicek

, pastor of Pius X parish in Wauwatosa, but left him in ministry with children, according to a police report released today.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel religion reporter Annysa Johnson, “Two Milwaukee archbishops had been made aware of complaints over the years, Archbishop Jerome Listecki in June 2012 and then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan – now a cardinal and archbishop of New York – in 2005. Yet there appears to have been no attempt to remove Marsicek from the two Catholic schools he served until Wauwatosa Police banned him from the schools while they investigated the latest complaint.” (More details can be found at the Wauwatosa Patch story

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