Blasting Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone for his steadfast refusal to release a list of suspected abusers within the ranks of San Francisco clergy, abuse survivors and their attorneys publicly named living priests who they say abused them for years.
One of the priests, Reverend Lawrence Finegan, was named in a 2022 lawsuit filed by Sandra Oldfield, who alleges she was sexually abused as a teenager by Finegan. Oldfield is named as Jane Doe in the complaint but recently decided to go public with her story in hopes of pressuring the Archdiocese to be more transparent about decades of accusations of sexual abuse by priests.
Oldfield was joined by her attorneys, advocates, and other abuse survivors at a Monday press conference in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral, where she and another alleged victim announced they had filed formal complaints with the Vatican demanding Cordileone’s removal as Archbishop.
