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  Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Pressure Mu's Wild to Apologize

By Bruce Vielmetti
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
March 30, 2011

http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/118949269.html

Clergy sex abuse survivors on Wednesday called for Father Robert Wild, president of Marquette University, to apologize for leaving pedophile priest Donald McGuire in active ministry when Wild led the Chicago Jesuits in the 1980s, and to join in calling for more disclosure by the Jesuits about abusive priests within the order.

At a news conference at Marquette, members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, also handed out excerpts of documents filed Monday in a Chicago court that SNAP says show Jesuits "knew with certainty that McGuire was a serial predator and an ongoing and chronic danger to children," yet took no steps to protect them, while actively covering for McGuire.

A SNAP letter to Wild read, "Mindful of your many accomplishments during the course of your impressive Jesuit career and grateful for your decades of service to the Catholic community, we are nonetheless deeply disappointed and alarmed to learn that one of those Jesuit superiors, according to the evidence in the Chicago documents, was you."

 
 

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