MN – Four more ways MN Catholic officials aren’t “transparent”

MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Friday, Oct. 25

Statement by Bob Schwiderski Minnesota SNAP Director, (952 471 3422, skibrs@q.com )

You can’t make this stuff up.

Yesterday, Archbishop John Nienstedt wrote “We must also be committed to honesty and transparency.”

[Archdiocese]

But he refuses to give interviews. And he and other top Twin Cities Catholic officials refuse to disclose

–who’s allegedly been hired to review archdiocesan clergy child sex abuse files

[Minnesota Public Radio]

–who’s allegedly been hired as the new outside archdiocesan public relations firm

–who’s allegedly investigating an accused predator priest at a Catholic university

[Star Tribune]

–who’s on the archdiocesan ‘review board’ that looks at specific child sex abuse reports and that found a child sex abuse report against Fr. Michael Keating lacks “sufficient evidence.”

[Minnesota Public Radio]

This is being “open and transparent?”

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