GREEN BAY (WI)
Green Bay Press-Gazette
August 23, 2018
By Paul Srubas
David Zubik, the former bishop of the Green Bay Catholic Diocese, has found himself at center stage this week in a three-decades-old scandal about priest sexual abuse in his current diocese in Pittsburgh.
Zubik has been leader of the Pittsburgh diocese since 2007. It is one of several named by a Pennsylvania grand jury as being part of a statewide scandal involving more than 300 predator priests who left more than 1,000 young victims over the last several decades.
While nearly all the abuse cases referenced in the grand jury’s report predate Zubik’s term as bishop, he was administrative secretary to the bishop and director of clergy personnel through part of the period and held other important administrative functions.
The grand jury report indicates Zubik was probably aware of at least some of the steps the diocese took to keep adverse publicity to a minimum during the years the abuses came to light, including reassigning suspected abusers to other parishes or dioceses and reaching settlements with victims that included confidentiality agreements.
Many of the abuses described in the grand jury report were addressed in the 1980 and early 1990s, when Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and, later, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, led the Pittsburgh diocese, while Zubik had administrative positions.
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