DETROIT (MI)
Detroit Free Press

August 14, 2018

By Ann Zaniewski

On the eve of Tuesday’s release of a scathing grand jury report about church leaders protecting more than 300 “predator priests” in Pennsylvania, Archbishop of Detroit Allen Vigneron said priests who have impure relations with others need to repent or give up the priesthood.

He stressed that all clergy — including bishops like himself — need to be held accountable for their behavior.

Vigneron’s remarks came in two similar letters Monday — one geared toward clergy, the other to the faithful at large — issued ahead of the release of the report which accused leaders in six Pennsylvania dioceses for decades of being more interested in safeguarding the church and the abusers than the well-being of more than 1,000 victims.