MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 02/13/2014
The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis has for the first time publicly released its full audited financial report for 2013 — which notes a $3.87 million deficit.
The report, posted on the archdiocese website and the website of its official newspaper, the Catholic Spirit, also contains information not previously released on the accounts used to pay victims of child sexual abuse and other priestly misconduct, as well as the priests themselves.
Over the last 10 years, the archdiocese has spent more than $8.8 million through those accounts, the report said.
“We are doing this (disclosure) because we are accountable to the people we serve,” Auxiliary Bishop Lee Piche wrote in an accompanying statement.
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