The Catholic Church official charged with endangering two men who testified they were sexually abused by two priests as youths said in his defense Wednesday that he was motivated to go through the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s secret archives of troubled priests after looking at a file of a priest accused of indecent conduct and seeing that the priest had prior, similar misconduct.
Monsignor William J. Lynn said he wanted “to look and see if there were any other priests out there like [Father James M.] Dux and get those names to my superiors.”
