MINNEAPOLIS (MN)
MPR News
June 3, 2018
By Nina Moini
The pews were nearly full Sunday morning inside Our Lady of Lourdes in northeast Minneapolis.
Father Dan Griffith took the last few minutes of Mass to fill everyone in about the landmark $210 million settlement between the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and 450 survivors of sexual abuse by priests. The agreement, announced Thursday, is the largest sexual abuse settlement yet of any Catholic diocese in the United States.
“This is an opportunity for a new beginning,” Griffith said. “But, to never lose sight of why we’re in this position, that we were not vigilant in protecting children.”
Griffith says he made a donation from his parish to a fund to help pay the abuse survivors, because it was the right thing to do.
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