Lawsuit Filed Against San Antonio Archdiocese Alleging Cover-Up of Priest Abuse

The San Antonio (TX) Express News reports that on Thursday a lawsuit was filed against the Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio accusing it of covering up the repeated sexual abuse of a 12-year old boy by a priest. The abuse of the victim, an altar boy in the Floresville Parish school, is alleged to have occurred in 1976-77 by priest Louis White who was associate pastor of Sacred Heart Church. White was removed from the priesthood in 1989. The suit also alleges that sometime during the past 18 months, a priest at Mass in the Floresville parish chastised anyone who planned to come forward ab out being abused. He suggested that instead they make penance for themselves and the abusing priest.