According to a letter released by SNAP on Friday, former Green Bay Bishop Aloysius Wycislo moved a former priest John Patrick Feeney from Green Bay to another diocese while keeping his molestation problems on the downlow in 1983.

According to SNAP’s letter, Wycislo wrote: “As I go through the total file of the hearings, your meetings with the personnel board, and your response, the conclusion seems to be that in your best interest another diocese, another atmosphere, new people, and new faces might be the answer to your problem.”

Also: “It is a pity that serving the Diocese of Green Bay for thirty years ends in this way, but, really, haven’t we all tried? Again and again there were so many assignments. In my case, I am capable of forgetting about all this and writing a good letter of recommendation for you to a new bishop, and I hope and pray you will find one.”

This despite the fact that Wycislo says: “time and time again I have been advised by civil servants, specifically the Attorney General, that unless the diocese promised to provide for treatment you would be prosecuted.”

Feeney was convicted of the abuse in 2004 and sent to prison, and was defrocked by the Church in 2005.

Read the whole letter here.