MILWAUKEE (WI)
U.S. Catholic
By Maryangela Layman
Roman Catholic News Service
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (CNS) — The Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced April 3 that it will publicly release approximately 3,000 pages of documents that contain details about clergy sexual abuse and will post them to the archdiocesan website by July 1.
The documents, taken from priest personnel files, files of the bishops and vicar for clergy and other sources in the archdiocese, include the depositions of retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, as well as those of Milwaukee Auxiliary Bishop Richard J. Sklba and Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan that were taken in Chapter 11 proceedings. Cardinal Dolan, now New York’s archbishop, headed the Milwaukee Archdiocese from 2002 to 2009.
The records will be posted online at www.archmil.org/archmil/home.htm.
The announcement came a day before a scheduled hearing before Judge Susan V. Kelley in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to discuss a motion filed by the creditors committee and attorneys Michael Finnegan and Jeffrey Anderson to lift the protective order to make public documents and depositions taken as part of the proceedings.
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