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World-Herald
By Michael O’Connor / World-Herald staff writer
A support group for clergy abuse victims is criticizing the Omaha Archdiocese for not making a quicker public disclosure of a local man’s allegation of sexual abuse by a priest.
Chicago-based SNAP called the delay “reckless and callous, and said Archbishop George Lucas should explain why it occurred and apologize.
The archdiocese announced Friday that an Omaha man alleges that a priest sexually abused him 30 years ago, when he was in his early teens.
The archdiocese identified the priest as the Rev. Anthony Palmese, who was associate pastor of Omaha’s Holy Ghost Parish in 1984-1985 when the alleged abuse occurred.
Palmese, who died in 2012, belonged to the New Jersey-based Order of Augustinian Recollects, according to the archdiocese.
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