| The Archdiocese of Milwaukee will correct errors and clarify information found in local media outlets to ensure that the people of southeastern Wisconsin receive accurate information.
Excerpts of July 11 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article:
"The archdiocese has offered to enter into pastoral mediation with victims. But the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests has been sharply critical, partly because of an archdiocesan requirement that victims agree not to have a lawyer present and that they drop any lawsuits before mediation."
CORRECTION
The Archdiocese is open to victim-survivors who want their attorney present during pastoral mediation, as long as the mediator, not the lawyer, controls the process.
Archbishop Dolan wrote about this in his April 3, 2003, Herald of Hope, which is available here.
"The meeting was believed to be the first time Weakland has met with a sexual abuse victim since he retired in June 2002 after acknowledging that the archdiocese paid $450,000 to a man who claimed that Weakland sexually assaulted him in 1979 when the man was a 30-year-old graduate student. Weakland denied the assault but conceded "an inappropriate" relationship with the man, Paul Marcoux."
CORRECTION
As required by Church law, Archbishop Weakland submitted his letter of resignation as Archbishop of Milwaukee on April 2, 2002, his 75th birthday. Archbishop Weakland's resignation was accepted on May 24, 2002, by Pope John Paul II.
For the complete article, visit the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel web site.
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