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NBC Chicago
By Mary Ann Ahern | Tuesday, Jan 7, 2014
Next week the Chicago Archdiocese will release the names and details of 30 priests involved in sexual misconduct, and the information will grace the bulletins for thousands of Catholics this weekend.The disclosures are part of a settlement agreement ongoing for years.
Cardinal Francis George has written a letter to all priests under his supervision, and requested that his letter be published in this Sunday’s parish bulletins, hoping to get in front of what he explains will be the “the actual records of these crimes.”
“It will be helpful, we pray, for some,” George said. “But painful for many.”
The Cardinal’s letter is titled “Accountability and Transparency”. In it, he makes clear that so far as can be known there is no priest in public ministry known to have sexually abused a child.
But, the case that poses the most difficulty for Cardinal George is former priest Daniel McCormack.
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