MILWAUKEE (WI)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Annysa Johnson and Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel
Feb. 20, 2013
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the former archbishop of Milwaukee, was deposed about clergy sex abuse Wednesday in the Milwaukee archdiocese’s bankruptcy case, church officials and lawyers said.
The deposition, taken in New York and first reported by the New York Times reports, comes as Dolan prepares to leave next week for the Vatican, where a conclave of cardinals is set to choose a new pope to replace Pope Benedict XVI. The pope announced last week that he was stepping down, the first sitting pope to do so in more than 600 years.
Dolan, the most influential Catholic bishop in the United States, has been mentioned as a long shot to succeed Benedict, though many feel an American is unlikely to be picked.
Dolan headed the Milwaukee archdiocese from 2002 to 2009, before being named to the New York position. During his term here, archdiocesan officials sought to reach financial settlements with people who had been sexually abused by priests over the years, but those talks weren’t successful. In January 2011, Dolan’s Milwaukee successor, Archbishop Jerome Listecki, announced the archdiocese was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because the financial claims against it “exceed our means.”
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