MILWAUKEE (WI)
CBS 58
by Priscilla Luong
MILWAUKEE– Seven hundred people gathered at the Hyatt in Downtown Milwaukee Friday evening for the St. Francis of Sales Seminary Dinner.
“If it happens to fall on a day that we’re scheduled in court, it’s just a coincidence,” said Archbishop Jerome
Tickets for the event cost $150.00 per person. Organizers say the celebration is the largest fundraiser the seminary has ever had, with proceeds going to recruit and retain new priests, but it came just hours after the Milwaukee Archdioceses’ bankruptcy hearing.
“This is a time to express tremendous remorse,” said Peter Isely, Midwest Director for the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests.
Isley says the annual fundraiser could not come at a worse time.
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