LOUISVILLE (KY)
WLKY TV
November 8, 2018
By Kevin Trager
The Archbishop of Louisville is promising transparency as local Catholics call for the archdiocese to release names of clergy who have faced credible accusations of child sex abuse.
Earlier this week, the archdioceses of Atlanta and Buffalo released the names of more than 50 clergy who have faced credible accusations of child sex abuse. Church officials released the names to promote transparency in the wake of a recent Pennsylvania attorney general investigation detailing decades of child sex abuse by priests in that state.
On Thursday, a local group of supporters of clergy sex abuse victims held a prayer event in front of the Cathedral of the Assumption. “The problem is so enormous prayer is probably the best thing we can do,” said Cal Pfeiffer, who joined the support group following the Boston Globe report of widespread clergy sex abuse in 2002. “It was only three months later it broke here in Louisville and if it wasn’t for the people in Boston it would still probably be covered up here.”
Archbishop of Louisville Joseph Kurtz released the following statement to WLKY:
“Catholics are angry, confused, and in pain, and I hurt with them. My heart especially goes out to victim survivors. I have received letters from those who have been abused many years ago by a priest or representative of the church. Their wounds are deep, and recent events have opened these wounds once again.
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