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Chicago Sun-Times
The Archdiocese of Chicago released documents Thursday morning relating to 36 priests with substantiated sexual abuse allegations against them.
The documents, comprising about 15,000 pages of information about the 36 priests, were posted to the archdiocese website at 9 a.m.
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Thursday’s release, in addition to documents about 30 other priests that were released in January, will cover all but two priests currently listed on the archdiocese website as having substantiated sex abuse allegations against them, the archdiocese said. The two priests not included are involved in ongoing processes that do not permit the release of documents.
“As we said in January, we are committed to transparency with the people we serve,” Cardinal Francis George said in the statement. “We cannot change the past but we hope we can rebuild trust through honest and open dialogue.”
The archdiocese followed a document review process designed to protect victim privacy to determine which documents could be released, according to the statement.
All of the priests detailed in the documents are out of ministry, and 14 of them are deceased, according to the archdiocese. Most of the cases included in the documents involve incidents before 1988.
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