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Not once.
Over a span of 18 years, that’s how often the one-time head of the US bishops child sex abuse panel called police about admitted, proven or credibly accused predator priests.
Not once.
That’s also how often he told others on his staff to call police about admitted, proven or credibly accused predator priests.
How do we know this?
Because these are admissions made under oath by the prelate himself – the now-retired Twin Cities Archbishop Harry Flynn.
“Well, maybe Flynn never called the cops – or told others to do so – because there were no pedophile priests in his archdiocese?” one might wonder.
Hardly. There are 53 publicly accused child molesting clerics in his archdiocese. (The number of actual child molesting clerics is, of course, no doubt much higher. And that doesn’t count the predators who technically belong to a religious order or another diocese that were working in the St. Paul archdiocese and molested kids.)
And let’s look closely at what years those were: 1995-2008. So part of Flynn’s tenure heading the Twin Cities church (2002-2008) were after 2002, the year when Flynn and his brother bishops emphatically and repeatedly pledged – in a formal and allegedly binding new church policy – to call police about known and suspected child sex crimes by clergy.
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