MILWAUKEE (WI)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By ANNYSA JOHNSON — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MILWAUKEE — Friday’s announcement that New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan will be elevated to cardinal in February reflects his growing prominence in the American Catholic Church, and near meteoric rise since leaving the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in 2009.
Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is one of just two U.S. prelates on a list of 22 new cardinals announced by Pope Benedict XVI after a special Epiphany Mass closing the Church’s Christmas celebrations. …
Dolan’s detractors also weighed in. The advocacy group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests issued a statement criticizing Dolan’s record on the church’s sex abuse crisis and suggested he took steps to shield millions of dollars in church funds to keep them from being used to pay victims in the Milwaukee Archdiocese’s ensuing bankruptcy.
Dolan has derided the allegation, first raised in a bankruptcy hearing last year, as “groundless gossip.”
“Our disappointment is that he didn’t stay here to complete the job he said he was going to do, and the lack of transparency,” said Peter Isely, SNAP’s Midwest director.
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