MINNESOTA
National Catholic Reporter
Brian Roewe | Oct. 14, 2014
A “historic settlement” of a lawsuit Monday in Minnesota produced more than financial compensation for the alleged survivor of clergy sex abuse. It also saw the formation of an unlikely partnership among two dioceses and one of the nation’s most prominent abuse litigators.
Attorney Jeff Anderson, the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese and Winona diocese announced an agreement that has already yielded near-mirror 17-point action plans for each diocese and has each committed to work with Anderson’s law firm moving forward, including the disclosure of additional priests with substantiated claims of child sexual abuse.
“This is about a new day, this is about a new way, this is about a safer day,” Anderson said at a press conference Monday.
Part of that new way, he said, is the action plan “that not only protects kids in the future, but honors the pain and the sorrow and the grief of the survivors in the past.”
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