By Steve Carmody
Michigan Radio
August 25 2010
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| Bishop Earl Boyea, Diocese of Lansing (courtesy of the Diocese of Lansing) |
A national group is accusing Lansing's Catholic bishop of caring more about public relations than victims of priest sexual abuse.
The diocese this week disclosed sex abuse allegations against a long dead priest. The church also recently quietly paid $225 thousand to an alleged victim of another dead priest.
David Clohessy is the national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. He says Lansing Bishop Earl Boyea is still trying to protect the church's image.
"Lansing Bishop (Earl Boyea) is choosing to do what literally what hundreds of his colleagues for decades have done," says Clohessy, "which is to quietly make a settlement behind closed doors...saying nothing to the public...about the accusations and hope everything goes away quietly."
A Lansing diocese spokesman calls the SNAP allegations 'off base.'
Diocese spokesman Michael Diebold says many allegations against priests are 'meritless' and would ruin reputations if they were made public. © Copyright 2010, Michigan Radio
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