CANADA
Winnipeg Sun
BY KRISTIN ANNABLE, WINNIPEG SUN
FIRST POSTED: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 02, 2014
A disgraced archbishop recently found guilty of sexually assaulting a Winnipeg boy in the 1980s will not be defrocked by the Archdiocese of Canada.
Instead, Archbishop Seraphim Storheim was retired quietly by the church.
The decision has outraged critics who say the decision to spare Storheim of the defrocking goes directly against the church’s sexual misconduct policy.
“I think they are being very cautious, there is a lot of sentiment of support for him in Canada,” said Melanie Sakoda, the Orthodox director of SNAP, also known as the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
“The thing that bothered me is their policy seems to be very clear: If he is found to have abused a child, he is to be defrocked.”
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