MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday December 18, 2013
Statement by Bob Schwiderski, SNAP Minnesota director ( 952 471 3422, skibrs@q.com )
Enough is enough. Catholic officials should start defrocking Fr. Kevin McDonough. And Catholic parishioners should donate elsewhere until this happens.
Fr. McDonough knows more about clergy sex crimes and cover ups than anyone else in the archdiocese. His name and fingerprints are on many church records about concealing known and suspected crimes.
But the final straw came late yesterday when St. Paul’s police chief named Fr. McDonough as one of the archdiocesan clerics who refuse to be questioned by police.
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By this decision, Fr. McDonough has lost any shred of or claim to any moral authority he may have once had.
And by tolerating this, Archbishop Nienstedt and Bishop Piche – and every other chancery office staffer – are also besmirching themselves and the church they purport to love.
It’s absurd for them to claim that they “cannot speak for Fr. McDonough and his choice not to speak with the police.”
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