Biloxi, Miss., Jul 27, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Attorney Sheila Schreiber-Parkhill has urged sociologist and author Fr. Andrew Greeley to expose priests who he knows to be abusing children and involved in illegal activity.
Fr. Greeley has written several books and stories about the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, especially in Chicago, namely "Confessions of a Parish Priest" and "Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest."
In a recent e-mail, Schreiber-Parkhill, who has been investigating the Boys Club in Chicago, asked the priest: "Isn't it time you do something about the Chicago Boys Club, including the priest, now bishop, whose name has been included with it?" The e-mail was circulated to the press by Matt Abbott, a Catholic journalist and commentator.
The attorney from Bismarck, North Dakota, accused Fr. Greeley of holding onto information that would implicate members of the Boys Club and pointed out that he has clearly stated in his books that he knows the names of the perpetrators.