CONNECTICUT
Darien Times
Written by Susan Shultz
Thursday, February 09, 2012
The Diocese of Bridgeport, which includes Darien’s two Roman Catholic parishes, is distancing itself from comments made by its former leader, Cardinal Edward Egan, to Connecticut Magazine.
In the magazine’s February edition, Cardinal Egan, who left the Diocese of Bridgeport in 2002 to become Archbishop of New York, said he retracted his apology for sexual abuse that reportedly occurred in the diocese.
“I never should have said that. I did say if we did anything wrong, I’m sorry, but I don’t think we did anything wrong,” Egan said.
Brian Wallace, spokesman for the Diocese of Bridgeport and its current leader, Bishop William E. Lori, told The Darien Times that “our apology stands. There’s no denial it happened, and it was a tragedy.”
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