MINNESOTA
Post-Bulletin
Posted: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Kay Fate, kfate@postbulletin.com
Pat Wall was ordained in December 1993, serving as a Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk for five years.
He left the Winona Diocese in 1998, “because every (parish) assignment I had was to follow a priest-pedophile,” he said last week.
Now, he’s on the other side of the collar, so to speak. Wall, an attorney with Jeff Anderson and Associates of St. Paul, advocates for and represents victims of abuse by priests.
A list of 14 priests accused of sexual abuse released Monday by the Winona Diocese will likely add to those ranks, but the list tells only part of the picture, Wall said.
“It doesn’t say what the bishops knew, when they knew it and what they did about it,” he said at a news conference Monday. “It doesn’t say which parishes the priests were serving” when the accusations were leveled.
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