WILMINGTON (DE)
The News Journal

Written by
BETH MILLER
The News Journal

The personnel records or more than a dozen priests and thousands of pages of court files from sexual abuse lawsuits filed against the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington will be released later today by a Delaware-based advocacy group and a Boston-based watchdog group, and members of those groups now are calling for the resignations of three top diocesan officials.

The files emerge from agreements reached last year to settle the diocese’s bankruptcy case, which included more than $77 million in payment to abuse survivors and their attorneys. The non-monetary terms of that settlement included release of these records.

Matthias Conaty, founder of Child Victims Voice, an advocacy group that fought for the 2007 Delaware law that made it possible for survivors to file the lawsuits, said he and others will speak at a 1 p.m. press…