MOBILE (AL)
The Associated Press
November 12, 2018
Roman Catholic church offices in Alabama and Mississippi will publicly release the names of clergy members accused of sexually abusing minors over decades, church leaders said.
A statement from Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi of Mobile said each of the four Catholic dioceses in the two states will report the names of people who were removed from ministry after being accused of abuse.
Diocese offices are in Birmingham, Alabama, plus Jackson and Biloxi in Mississippi, and the archdiocese is in Mobile.
The Mobile office will release names involved in accusations dating back to 1950, Rodi said. He did not say when the list would be made public.
“It is a time-consuming effort to examine each clergy personnel file from the last almost seven decades. This effort is under way and will be completed as quickly as possible,” Rodi said in the statement released Thursday.
The Biloxi diocese said it would forward any of its names to the office in Jackson should cases predate its 1977 founding.
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