Other Bishops in Trouble

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 14, 2002

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/probpriests.nsf/0/EB7798C78B24DDF886256C9100264D67?OpenDocument

Now that the most senior U.S. Roman Catholic cardinal has been forced to resign as head of the Boston Archdiocese, there are two circles of other bishops who experts believe might be forced to follow. The following men are former Boston Archdiocesan auxiliary bishops who either made their own decisions about assigning known abusive priests to new parishes or did so at Law's request:

- Bishop John B. McCormack, now of Manchester, N.H.
- Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, now of New Orleans
- Bishop Thomas Daily, now of Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Bishop Robert Banks, now of Green Bay, Wis.
- Bishop William Murphy, now of Rockville Center (most of Long Island), N.Y.

Unconnected to the actions in Boston, Catholic scholars and activists said the following bishops also may be pressured to resign because of their mismanagement of known sexual abusers in their own dioceses:

- Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.
- Cardinal Edward Egan of New York City. He has been accused of mishandling abusive priests in his former diocese of Bridgeport, Conn.
- Bishop Charles Grahmann of Dallas.
- Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien of Phoenix.
- Bishop Thomas Manuel Moreno of Tucson, Ariz.
- Bishop Gerald Gettlefinger of Evansville, Ind.
- Bishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha, Neb.