GALLUP (NM)
Gallup Independent

October 17, 2017

By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola

[Note: See also BishopAccountability.org’s database entry on Brother Mark Schornack OFM. The letter linked below was reproduced when this story ran in the Gallup Independent .]

Flagstaff, Ariz. — Usually it takes a judge’s order to pry the lid off a clergy sex abuser’s confidential personnel file.

But in the case of Brother Mark Schornack, OFM, it just took a mistake by a courthouse employee to publicly release restricted documents that were supposed to be filed under seal.

That mistake was made in Flagstaff’s Coconino County Courthouse with the case Jane L.S. Doe v. Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and St. Michael Indian School. The documents reveal that Schornack, who has been identified as a credibly accused child molester by the Diocese of Gallup, was accepted into the Franciscan religious order while he was a patient at…