Clergy sex abuse  Dolan warned Vatican, documents show  Enlarge
Image Request to buy this photo As Archbishop of Milwaukee,
Timothy Dolan developed a plan to pay some abusers to leave the
priesthood.  MILWAUKEE — As more victims of clergy sex abuse
came forward, then-Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan developed
a plan to pay some abusers to leave the priesthood. That came
after he wrote to Vatican officials to warn them about the
potential for scandal if they did not defrock problem priests,
according to documents released yesterday.  Dolan’s
correspondence with Vatican officials and priests accused of
sexual abuse was included in about 6,000 pages of documents the
Archdiocese of Milwaukee released yesterday as part of a deal
reached in federal bankruptcy court with clergy sex-abuse
victims suing it for fraud. Victims say the archdiocese
transferred problem priests to new churches without warning
parishioners and covered up priests’ crimes for decades.  The
documents have drawn attention in part because of th