Dolan installed as Archbishop of Milwaukee.
Dolan paid $20,000 to abusive priests who agreed not to fight their dismissal from the priesthood. Records indicated that the practice of “paying off” abusive priests dated back to at least 1995.
Dolan warns the Vatican: “As victims organize and become more public, the potential for a true scandal is very real.”
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee publishes a list of 43 abusive priests on its website.
Dolan letter to Archbishop Angelo Amato of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that now-defrocked Father John C. Wagner was continuing to have unsupervised contact with minors and was continuing to re-offend.
Dolan sought Vatican approval to move nearly $57 million in cemetery funds off the archdiocese’s books and into a trust to help protect them “from any legal claim or liability”, according to documents. The Vatican granted its permission for the transfer of the cemetery funds 17 days later.
SNAP called the transfer a “smoking gun” and proof of a fraudulent transfer under U.S. bankruptcy law and called on James Santelle, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, to investigate.
Dolan installed as the Archbishop of New York.
Dolan allows then-Harlem Pastor Msgr. Wallace A. Harris, accused of sexually assaulting more than 10 boys, to resign two years after the allegations of abuse.
Dolan thanks the President of the Catholic League for issuing a press release that called the organization Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) “liars” and a “phony victims’ group.”
Dolan introduces the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program in effort to counter arguments in favor of the Child Victims Act. According to Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer Dolan appointed to administer the program in NYC and Long Island who privately pitched to representatives of three Upstate New York Dioceses:
“The whole point is to get the release, so we offer $10,000. In Buffalo, maybe $5,000,” Feinberg said. “Get the release. We want to be able to show Albany that people are accepting this money and signing releases. You don’t need to change the statute.”
Sale of Fidelis Care at $3.75B created the “Mother Cabrini Health Foundation”, a nonprofit with a stated mission of providing care to low-income and vulnerable populations.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signs Childs Victims Act.
Archdiocese of New York (ADNY) releases names of 120 priests and deacons accused of sexually abusing a child or having child pornography in the latest revelations in the Catholic Church’s long-running sex abuse epidemic, critics note list does not detail when accusations were made, where the abuse occurred or what was done after an accusation was made.
Los Angeles real estate firm buys shuttered church site in New York City for $40M.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral sells air rights for $164M
ADNY under contract to sell vacant lot in East Village for $58M
ADNY plans to sell 124-yr old East Harlem church to property developer for $5M
ADNY sells office space to developer for $100M
ADNY announces layoffs of 18 staffers to pay for Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, said to save $1.5M
ADNY Chelsea church under contract to sell to a developer for $48M