57 year old monk charged with attempted child abduction
From CBS 58 News
By Chris Patterson
BENET LAKE -- 57-year-old Thomas Chmura, a monk at St. Benedicts Abbey, is charged with attempted child abduction and disorderly conduct after allegedly trying to pick up teenage girls in his van. Reports from some of Chmura's potential victims eventually led police to spotting his van and arresting him.
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Archbishop speaks after recent removal of priest
From Channel 12 News
Milwaukee's archbishop delivered a mass of atonement Monday night at St. John Vianney, focusing on the victims of clergy sex abuse.
This was the first time Archbishop Jerome Listecki has spoken on removing the Rev. Bob Marsicek from his duties last month.
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Archbishop Listecki leads Mass of Atonement
From Fox 6 News
By Chip Brewster
MILWAUKEE (WITI) — The Milwaukee Archdiocese’s “Mass of Atonement” has become an annual event during which the church seeks forgiveness for clergy who have sexually abused children.
This year’s Mass, held on Monday, April 22nd, came on the heels of the most recent scandal involving a Wauwatosa priest allegedly touching children.
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SNAP says Archdiocese release of documents is not enough
By Tami Hughes
MILWAUKEE (WITI) — The Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced on Wednesday, April 3rd on its website and via Archbishop Jerome Listecki’s blog — it WILL release thousands of pages of documents detailing clergy sexual abuse in the Milwaukee Archdiocese as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. SNAP, the Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests has asked that these documents be unsealed and released to the public.
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CNN Special Report: Is church hiding money from abuse victims?
CNN Special Report: Did Church Hide Funds From Abuse Victims?
By Ted Rowlands and Kathleen Johnston
CNN)–He’s the top Roman Catholic figure in the United States, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and one of the princes of the church who will decide on a new pope.
But Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, is now under fire for how his old archdiocese in Milwaukee shifted money as it faced lawsuits by victims of sexual abuse by priests in Wisconsin.
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Cardinal Dolan deposed in Milwaukee Archdiocese bankruptcy
From Fox 6 News
By Jenna Sachs
MILWAUKEE (WITI) — A spokesperson for the Milwaukee Archdiocese says Cardinal Timothy Dolan was deposed in New York on Wednesday, February 20th. He answered questions under oath about clergy sex crimes.
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Milwaukee Archdiocese says it's running out of money
From Fox 6 News
MILWAUKEE (WITI) — Officials with the Archdiocese of Milwaukee says they are running out of money. This, as a federal bankruptcy judge is asked to suspend the legal fees of the Archdiocese. But critics of the Archdiocese say officials should have seen this coming when it chose to fight hundreds of claims of sexual abuse by priests.
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Names of Boy Scout leaders accused of assault made public
Fox 6
By Ben Handelman
MILWAUKEE — The names of Boy Scout leaders accused of sexually assaulting boys are now public. Nearly 100 of those names are from Wisconsin.
The more-than 15,000 documents in question are being called the perversion files. They show how the Scouts dealt with sexual assault accusations from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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