UNITED STATES
NBC Chicago
By Mary Ann Ahern | Thursday, Dec 5, 2013
On the day that the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis plan to disclose the names of roughly 30 priests who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors, the Vatican announced the Pope will form a new international commission to examine this crisis.
The Minnesota archdiocese sent an email to priests Wednesday saying 92 parishes have had at least one accused priest at some point – that’s nearly half of the 188 parishes there. Most of the allegations stem from the 1950s to the 1980s.
As for the new Vatican Commission, the Pope’s spokesman Rev. Thomas Rosica told NBC 5 in an email that the commission will be different than the one established in Chicago.
“What is new… it is a commission established by the Vatican at the universal level of the Church,” he said in the email. “What Cardinal Bernardin established was for Chicago.”
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