CHICAGO (IL)
NBC Chicago
Local Catholics received a letter in their parish bulletins Sunday with details about sexual misconduct among area priests.
Cardinal Francis George wrote the letter to all of the priests under his supervision, and requested that the letter be published in order to get in front of what he explains will be the “the actual records of these crimes.”
In the letter titled “Accountability and Transparency,” George discusses a plan this week for the Chicago Archdiocese to release the names and details of 30 priests involved in sexual misconduct as part of an ongoing settlement agreement.
Cardinal George attended mass at St. Araneous parish in Park Forest Sunday morning, an although he didn’t mention the letter to parishioners, he did speak with reporters beforehand.
“Since the publication of dossiers of events that happened in the 80s and before I got here, is going to nonetheless be the occasion for a lot of conversation now, so I thought I better put it in some perspective and that was the purpose of the letter,” George said.
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