BATON ROUGE (LA)
WBRZ
September 22, 2018
Bishop Michael Duca vowed transparency in an unprecedented, five-minute phone conversation with WBRZ Friday related to allegations of sexual abuse within the Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge and a plan to make records public.
“I don’t have a timetable right now. We are moving fairly quickly,” he said, “to come up with an idea of what [information will be released and how].” Duca said the diocese is working with the archbishop of New Orleans to make a list of priests accused of sexual misconduct. That list will eventually be revealed to the faithful and the rest of the public.
“Once we do… The rest will move fairly quickly,” Duca said.
Duca called WBRZ from Texas when he was told the WBRZ Investigative Unit and Chris Nakamoto were looking into long-secret church records related to lawsuit settlements over sexual abuse by priests.
“We don’t want to hurt anyone in this process,” Duca said. “We are also making sure we aren’t going to release information that will be abused or cause concern for any victims.”
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