LOS ANGELES (CA)
Washington Post
By Associated Press
Updated: Monday, April 15
LOS ANGELES — In an April 14 story about confidential personnel files on Roman Catholic religious order priests, The Associated Press reported erroneously that such clergy were loaned out to the Los Angeles Archdiocese to relieve priest shortages. Religious order priests were assigned to work in the archdiocese in many capacities.
A corrected version of the story is below:
LA priest ministered despite abuse conviction
Attorneys seek religious order files on accused priests, including 1 who served after jail
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — When the Rev. John Anthony Salazar arrived in Tulia, Texas, in 1991, he was warmly welcomed by the Roman Catholic community tucked in the Texas Panhandle. What his new parishioners didn’t know was he’d been hired out of a treatment program for pedophile priests — and that he’d been convicted for child molestation and banned from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for life.
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