MILWAUKEE (WI)
KPLR
[with video]
(KTVI) – Thousand of documents have been released by the Milwaukee Archdiocese detailing their response to decades of allegations of priest sex abuse.
St. Louis native, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, was Archbishop their from 2002 to 2009. But some church critics are now calling Dolan a criminal. They say he conspired with the Vatican to transfer $57 million from Archdiocese coffers to a new and also pay priest accused of sexual misconduct to leave the church.
Read documents released by the Milwaukee Archdiocese
Cardinal Dolan responded to some of these accusations in a statement released by the Archdiocese of New York saying:
“The accusations that priest were paid off and the he established the fund to shield church assets from lawsuits are ‘discredited attacks.’”
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