175 pages of once-secret meeting minutes from the San Francisco Archdiocese’s Independent Review Board (IRB) – the group handpicked by the Archbishop to probe abuse claims against clergy and other staff members – were publicly released Wednesday morning, shining a light on how the church investigates its own.
The disclosure was ordered last month by a judge in the Archdiocese’s ongoing bankruptcy case against the objections of church attorneys, with victims and their attorneys calling the move “unprecedented.”
“This is the first time I can say in a bankruptcy case that an archdiocese had to make these minutes public,” said Brittany Michael, a bankruptcy attorney representing the Archdiocese’s creditors…