By Dave Warner
The allegations against the five grew out of a 2011 Philadelphia grand jury report that ended with the jailing of Monsignor William Lynn, the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic Church official convicted in a child sex abuse scandal.
Lynn, the one-time secretary of the clergy for the archdiocese, was convicted last year of endangering the welfare of a child by reassigning a priest with a history of sexual abuse to a Philadelphia parish that was unaware of his past.
Lynn's case is under appeal.
David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, was critical of Chaput's handling of the investigation.
"There's only one reason to delay and to lump multiple accused predator priests together for one big announcement," Clohessy said before the church released its statement on Sunday.
"Chaput simply wants to try and make sure there's just one story about child-molesting clerics, not several stories."
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