All five are charged with sex crimes. The Michigan investigation is a rare state probe of the Catholic Church to result in numerous arrests.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has led one of the most aggressive probes of the Catholic Church in the country. In this photo, Nessel attends an event for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in Clawson, Mich., in March.
One former parishioner from Benton Harbor has sought for many years to draw public attention to his conduct, claiming in posts online and at an in-person protest of the Diocese of Kalamazoo that Vellian molested her when she was a minor in the 1970s and that the abuse has affected her ever since. The diocese said that DeLorenzo, now 80, was removed from ministry in January 2002 but has not been laicized -- officially removed from the priesthood -- though the diocese has requested that the Vatican take that action. He faces six charges of criminal sexual conduct.
His attorney, Stephen Rabaut, declined to comment. None of the other four men have attorneys listed in Michigan court case online records.
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