UNITED STATES
The Village Voice
[Minutes of the Archdiocesan Finance Council]
By Victoria Bekiempis
Thu., May 31 2012
When Cardinal Timothy Dolan ran the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, he said OK to paying pervert priests up to 20 grand as “incentive” to get them to leave their posts.
A report in the New York Times, using info from that Archdiocese’s recent bankruptcy filings, notes that Dolan gave the greenlight for payments: “to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood.”
At that time, he vehemently rebuffed any and all allegations of doing anything like that, calling such claims: “false, preposterous and unjust.” Alas, a spokesman for Milwaukee told the newspaper that payments did take place so priests wouldn’t contest defrocking, a process known as “laicization.”
Now, there seem to be a couple of problems involving the policies of America’s top Roman Catholic cleric.
To be perfectly clear, we reached out to Dolan to see what he had to say, but his office referred us to Milwaukee, even though we explained that we wanted to talk to him or someone who could speak directly on his behalf. So he has a chance to say his spiel and still can reach out to us if he wants.
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