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  St. Ambrose Drops Name of Bishop from Library

Inside Higher Ed
August 6, 2007

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/06/qt

Davenport (IA) — The board of St. Ambrose University voted Friday to remove the name of the late Bishop Gerald O'Keefe from the Iowa institution's library because of requests that it act "because of the bishop's failure to take the necessary precautions to protect children from clergy sexual abuse that occurred during his tenure as bishop of the Davenport Diocese." A board statement said that the decision was "very difficult," but that board members "felt it was the right thing to do for the university, as well as a step taken in the spirit of promoting healing within the diocese and, in a larger sense, for all victims of abuse." A Web site called Bishop Accountability, which has records on numerous cases of abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy, notes numerous incidents in Bishop O'Keefe's diocese while he led it from 1966 to 1993.

 
 

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