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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY BARBARA DORRIS ON MAY 10, 2013
A Chicago Jesuit, Fr. Timothy P. Kesicki, has been tapped to head the Jesuit Conference. That’s a mistake. http://www.jesuit.org/blog/
In recent years in clergy sex abuse and cover up cases, Kesicki has done, at best, an inadequate job. At worst, he has done a reckless, callous, and deceitful job.
We’re saddened to see yet another complicit Catholic cleric being promoted. Once again, a clear signal is sent to Catholic employees: “Your clerical career will never suffer no matter how egregiously you ignore, conceal and enable child sex crimes.”
Recent troubling Jesuit cases in which Kesicki has been involved include:
–the 2011 revelations of abuse reports against Fr. Robert A. Wild, Marquette University President and former head (for six years) of the Chicago Jesuit Province
–the 2010 ouster of admitted abuser Fr. Larry Reuter, an ex-president of Loyola Academy
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