GREEN BAY - Advocates claim they have obtained thousands of documents from whistleblowers inside the church that reveal over 200 allegedly abusive priests were kept secret across the five Wisconsin dioceses, 69 of whom have associations with the Diocese of Green Bay.
On Thursday, Peter Isely, program director of Nate's Mission, and Sarah Pearson, its deputy director, stood in the lobby of the Brown County Courthouse with a message for Brown County District Attorney David Lasee: investigate their list of priests.
Isely did not show the Green Bay Press-Gazette the contents of the package or any of the documents to allow the newspaper to independently verify the organization's claims.
"We're here (in Green Bay), we were in Madison, in Milwaukee, because of these whistleblowers — church whistleblowers, people who are part of the church and have a conscience," Isely said. "We're delivering criminal evidence of child abuse, widespread child abuse and corporate cover-up of that abuse."
Nate's Mission, an organization pushing for a full accounting of clergy abuse in Wisconsin, is named after the late Nate Lindstrom of Green Bay, who accused multiple priests from St. Norbert Abbey of abuse. Lindstrom received $420,000 in secret payments from the Catholic order over 10 years until the abbey stopped sending checks in 2019. He died by suicide in 2020.
Currently, a list of 50 names appears on the Diocese of Green Bay's public disclosure list of abusive priests Isely claims an...
The Kroger Sued for False Advertising case is raising fresh concerns about transparency in supermarket meat departments, as Animal Outlook accuses the retail giant of misleading in-store marketing...