In the nearly five-minute video, Lucas referred people to the archdiocesan website for more details and apologized “on behalf of the people of God.”

“I’m sorry for what you have experienced in the church,” he said, adding: “We cannot change the sins or the betrayals of the past, but we can acknowledge these ugly truths of the past so that we can repent and so that we can be resolute in our determination that these things will not be repeated.”

Lucas said the archdiocese has a zero-tolerance policy and that it is no place “for anyone guilty of abuse of a minor.”

The archdiocese submitted information on 24 archdiocesan priests, and 10 priests from other dioceses or religious orders, with substantiated allegations of the abuse of minors or misconduct with minors. In all, documentation on 38 clergy members was given to the attorney general in connection with alleged abuse or misconduct with minors as far back as 1956 but the archdiocese said was reported to it between 1978 and 2018.

Of the 38 clergy, 34 allegedly offended before 2002 and the establishment of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.