MINNESOTA
National Catholic Reporter
Brian Roewe | Feb. 13, 2014
Abuse-related expenses for the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese surpassed $400,000 in the last two years and have totaled more than $6 million in the past decade, according to financial documents released Thursday.
The records, including everything from donations to education costs, represented the first time the archdiocese has made public its full audited financial report. The move is the latest effort toward greater transparency and accountability amidst a clergy sex abuse scandal that has seen Twin Cities church leadership charged with mishandling allegations and even led to the suspension of its archbishop from public ministry.
“We are doing this because we are accountable to the people we serve,” said Auxiliary Bishop Lee Piché in The Catholic Spirit, writing a guest column in place of Archbishop John Nienstedt, who remains out of public ministry while local authorities investigate an allegation of abuse against him.
“Without the time, talent and treasure of the hundreds of thousands of Catholics who support the ministry of this local Church, we could not live out our mission to make the name of Jesus Christ known and loved,” Piché wrote.
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