"Timothy Dolan who, during his time as archbishop of Milwaukee from 2002 to 2009, appealed to Vatican on numerous occasions to help address the ongoing fallout from the scandal."
It appears that the archbishop was trying to get rid of the bad priests and the Vatican was moving very slow.
"During a news conference on Monday, Jeff Anderson, an attorney representing more than 500 abuse victims, said the money was to be used to "pay off some of the offenders to quietly go away."
Here after trying to get rid of these scandelous problem priests the archbishop did offer payments to make these priests go away. When the Vatican was moving slow in their response to his efforts, he did what he believed was the most effective, he offered money. Which is preferable? having these guys hang around the rectory and maybe do something else while waiting for the slow wheels of the Vatican and the maneuvers of a good canon lawyer to slow things up even more? or get rid of them quickly?
"The 6,000 pages of docuмents related to eight decades of abuse cases"
How much of this is Dolan and how much of this is from his predecessors?