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WILLIAM. >> THERE ARE 33 CLERGY ON THIS LIST. THE VAST MAJORITIES ARE NEW. RECORDS GOING BACK TO THE NIGHT -- BACK TO 1956, TO PUT TOGETHER THIS LIST OF PRIESTS NAMES. THEY HAVE PASSED THE LIST ONTO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE -- ATTORNEYS GENERAL OFFICE. I SPOKE TO AN ATTORNEY WHO HAS REPRESENTED MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE . WHILE THIS IS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, SHE PROVIDED THESE NAMES DECADES AGO. >> THERE IS NO REASON TO COVER UP. NO REASON TO BE TRANSPARENT ON ANY OF THESE ISSUES. HAVE THEY ENGAGED IN THIS KIND OF COVER UP FOR MANY YEARS? >> ANYBODY W

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On Friday, the Diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph published a list of area clerics who have been found to have substantiated allegations of sexual abuse against a minor. “In releasing this list my first hope is that it will acknowledge the survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their wounds,” said Rev. James V. Johnson Jr., bishop of Kansas City – St. Joseph. “The release of these names cannot change the past. It is merely a step forward in hope, but a necessary step.”The diocese said the list was compiled after a review of diocese files by a forensic research firm.“Their findings confirmed there are no clerics in active ministry in the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph with substantiated allegations of abusing minors,” Johnson said. However, SNAP, or the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said this release was long overdue and incomplete.The list released by the diocese names 19 area diocesan clergy with substantiated abuse allegations, as well as clerics not incardinated in the KCSJ diocese but who were within the area at the time of the abuse. Click here for the full list released by the diocese. Officials with SNAP called the bishop’s release Friday “reckless and callous” and said the information the list contained was incomplete. “It is reckless and callous for Bishop Johnston to have hidden these names for so long, releasing them when it's convenient for him, instead of immediately when the allegations are made or deemed ‘credible’ by church officials,” a SNAP release said. “And it is notable to us that the list is missing several names and key details about others.”SNAP identified six clerics the organization identified as having spent time with KCSJ: Fr. Deusdedit Mulokozi, Fr. James V. McCormick, Fr. Richard C. Colbert, Fr. Donald Redmond, Fr. Thomas A. Conway and Fr. Edgar Probstfield.SNAP also said the list published Friday does not say when the diocese was informed of the allegations against the men involved or the actions taken by the church in response to those allegations; and of the men still living, it does not say where they are today. “While this may seem like a step forward, it is at best a partial disclosure, forced on the Bishop by pressure from parents, parishioners and the public. It is a way of feigning ‘openness,’ trying to diffuse legitimate anger, and turn attention back on to the perpetrator priests and away from complicit church officials who have minimized and hidden these cases,” SNAP said.