PHILADELPHIA (PA)
MSNBC
By Kari Huus, msnbc.com
Five priests have been deemed “not suitable for ministry, ” the Catholic Church of Philadelphia announced Friday, in its first action since it suspended 26 priests after a January 2011 grand jury report on clergy sex abuse.
Philadelphia Archbishop Chaput said three other clergy were reinstated to the ministry and one had died without a determination. Of the rest, six cases have not been completed by law enforcement, so the church has been unable to perform its own review, said Archbishop Charles Chaput. The others were under investigation or pending final disposition, he said.
Chaput said the investigation, which he described as “exhaustive,” was being carried out by a team that included 20 experts in child abuse, who have called in more than 200 witnesses and reviewed more than 400,000 pages of documents.
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