MILWAUKEE (WI)
Catholic News Service
By Maryangela Layman Roman
Catholic News Service
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (CNS) — In releasing between 6,000 and 7,000 pages of documentation related to clergy sexual abuse in the Milwaukee Archdiocese, Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki hopes that a chapter in the church’s history can be closed and that healing for abuse survivors, their families and the church can continue.
He expressed that hope in “Love One Another,” his June 25 email communique to priests and others involved in ministry in the Milwaukee Archdiocese, sent six days before the archdiocese posted the documents on its website: www.archmil.org. The material was posted July 1.
“My hope in voluntarily making these documents public is that they will aid abuse survivors, families and others in understanding the past, reviewing the present and allowing the church in southeastern Wisconsin to continue moving forward,” he wrote.
In early April, the archbishop announced that approximately 3,000 documents from priest personnel files, files of the bishops and vicar for clergy and other sources in the archdiocese would be made public by July 1 and called this planned release an effort to build “upon our commitment to transparency.”
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