MILWAUKEE (WI)
SNAP Wisconsin

CONTACT:
Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director (Milwaukee), 414.429.7259
John Pilmaier, SNAP Wisconsin Director, 414.336.8575

Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has once again raised false hopes of a settlement with victim/survivors and a resolution to the clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January of 2011, was ordered into mediation this summer with nearly 570 victim/survivors of clergy sex crimes by Federal Bankruptcy Judge Susan V. Kelley. At the time Kelley was clear that “we need to do what we can to get this thing resolved”. That “thing” is now the largest, and likely to be the costliest Catholic bankruptcy in U.S. history.

As it has done so many times in the past, church officials have falsely elevated the hopes of victim/survivors and their families by clearly indicating…