MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
[Archbishop Addresses Media Questions – St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese]
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 10/24/2013
Archbishop John Nienstedt admitted to Catholics on Thursday that “some serious mistakes have been made” in the handling of clergy sex-abuse cases.
Nienstedt apologized to all victims of abusive priests and promised to institute changes, including “a review of all clergy files by an outside firm.”
An archdiocese spokesman said Thursday that he did not know who that firm is.
In a written statement titled, “My pledge to restore trust,” Nienstedt said that “sweeping changes” made in every diocese after the 2002 U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Dallas led him and others to hope that clergy sex abuse was a thing of the past.
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