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March 13, 2019

By Rod Meloni and Amber Ainsworth

Man says list of accused clergy members is incomplete

An activist claims the Archdiocese of Detroit is not being fully honest in how it is handling clergy members accused of sexual abuse.

“We believe that the Detroit archbishop is being less than honest with his list of credibly accused priests,” David Clohessey said.

Clohessey is the former national president of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. He says that Archbishop Allen Vigneron’s handling of the priest abuse scandal is insufficient.

For instance, the archdiocese put out a list of more than five dozen clerics who have Detroit ties, but a former priest who is in prison for criminal sexual conduct isn’t on the list. James Francis Rapp, who was a priest at the Lumen Christi High School in Jackson, is…