The Teller Report
Oct. 6, 2019
The Swedish Catholic Church is now being pulled into the international pedophile scandal, with priests suspected of committing child abuse.
It is in new documents that came from two Catholic parishes in the United States that the two priests are named. They have also worked in Sweden during the 2000s, and have been accused of abuse here as well.
An increasing number of Catholic parishes in the United States have opened their archives and published lists of priests that the churches’ own investigations have shown have so-called “credible accusations” of sexual offenses against children.
One of the cases that Meredith Colias-Pete of the Post Tribune newspaper in Gary outside Chicago has examined concerns a priest who was later moved to Sweden. He was active in three different parishes in Gary during the 1980s. In the document the congregation published last year, the priest is listed as “credibly accused” of abuse against six children.
“The problem is that it is the church’s own investigation that has determined which have been” credibly accused “, and that they have not handed over the cases to the police,” says Meredith Colias-Pete.
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