MILWAUKEE (WI)
SNAP Wisconsin
Days after court agrees to keep “scandalous” testimony sealed, Listecki chooses Bishop Sklba to lead Easter celebration at St. John’s Cathedral
Statement by John Pilmaier, SNAP Wisconsin Director
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Only days after Judge Susan V. Kelley ruled that his testimony detailing decades of covering up child sex crimes was so “scandalous” that she will not unseal it, retired Milwaukee Bishop Richard Sklba was selected by current Archbishop Jerome Listecki to lead the Easter Mass for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
It was mistakenly reported by WTMJ Channel 4 Milwaukee this morning that former Archbishop Rembert Weakland also celebrated the Easter Mass. He did not.
Attorneys and the Creditors Committee representing the claims of 570 victim/survivors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court had sought the release last week of Sklba’s deposition, along with retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland, and some of the 50,000 pages of internal church documents related to the concealment and transfer of dozens of clergy child molesters. Kelley was persuaded by lawyers representing Weakland and the Archdiocese that the release of the depositions would, among other things, “humiliate” Weakland and others.
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