A former altar boy
is offering to donate a $3.6 million priest sex abuse award, if the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Burlington posts the photos of pedophile priests on its
Website.
Vermont’s
top Roman Catholic clergyman has written to parishioners around the state,
apologizing to the victim in a priest sex abuse case but saying the church will
appeal last week’s $8.7 million verdict against the Diocese of Burlington.
A high-ranking
former Diocese of Burlington official says the Diocese didn’t fully look into
the background of a priest who allegedly went on to molest boys in Vermont — even though the church was warned by the priest’s
former bishop.
Reverend John
McSweeney took the stand yesterday in Chittenden County Superior Court.