Ex-Archbishop Admits He Put Abusive Priests in Jobs Weakland's Deposition Is Part of Sex Case Against Milwaukee Archdiocese

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Retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland admitted in a video deposition released Wednesday that he transferred priests with a history of sexual misconduct back into churches without alerting parishioners.

The former archbishop acknowledged that he did so because "no parish would have accepted a priest unless you could say that he has gone through the kind of psychological examination and that he's not a risk to the parish."

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Ex-Archbishop Admits He Put Abusive Priests in Jobs Weakland's Deposition Is Part of Sex Case Against Milwaukee Archdiocese

While similar allegations have been made for years as the scandal rocked the Catholic Church across the country, Weakland's statements give a rare glimpse of how a top church leader dealt wi...

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