Archdiocese Of Baltimore Names 42 More Predators

The Baltimore Sun reports:

The Archdiocese of Baltimore added 42 names Friday to its list of church employees who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse, including that of a longtime theology dean and professor at Xavier University of Louisiana, the nation’s only Catholic historically Black college.

Father Phillip J. Linden began teaching theology at Xavier in 1991, after served as a priest in Baltimore from 1969 through 1986, according to the Archdiocese of Baltimore and his religious order, the Josephites. Linden is accused of abusing a boy in the 1970s when he was a pastor at St. Francis Xavier parish.

Friday’s additions, approved at the direction of Archbishop William Lori [photo], were the largest single expansion of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s credibly accused list since it first published 57 names in 2002 as part of its response to the national clergy abuse scandal. The church’s list now includes more than 180 names.

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