Cullen had secret list

New court filing says Allentown bishop, four others knew of 35 allegedly abusive priests

The Morning Call,Pennsylvania/March 3, 2012

Allentown Bishop Edward Cullen was one of three high ranking clergy present when Philadelphia Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua ordered aides to shred a list of priests suspected of sexually abusing children.

Allentown Bishop Edward Cullen was one of three high ranking clergy present… (Mariella Savidge, TMC) March 03, 2012|By Peter Hall and Matt Assad, Of The Morning Call

Nearly two decades ago, Allentown Bishop Edward Cullen was one of two or three high-ranking clergy present when the head of the Philadelphia Archdiocese ordered the shredding of a list of 35 priests suspected of sexually abusing children, according to a recent court filing in Philadelphia.

A copy of that list and a 1994 memo recording Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua's instructions to destroy it has turned up in the case of Monsignor William Lynn, a former archdiocesan official charged with endangering the welfare of children and conspiracy for allegedly enabling priests to molest children.

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