"Diocese location:
"San Antonio, Texas.
"Bishop's Name:
"Archbishop Patrick Flores.
"As an auxiliary bishop in San Antonio in the 1970s, he helped Xavier Ortiz - Dietz become a priest despite poor performance in three Mexican seminaries.
"One of the schools sent a report concluding that the student suffered from marked sexual conflict, ... obsessive manias, pronounced paranoid characteristics, delusions of grandeur..."
$4 million payout
"In 1998, the archdiocese paid about $4 million to seven victims of the priest, who has been imprisoned.
"Two women gave sworn statements saying they alerted the archdiocese of possible abuse in the 1980s; Archbishop Flores' attorney has said he was not warned.
"In the late 1990s, the archbishop testified in a deposition that the priest remained fit for certain ministries despite his criminal conviction.
"In the late 1980s, meanwhile, Archbishop Flores settled a lawsuit over alleged molestation by the Rev. Federico Fernandez.
"He [Archbishop Flores] has said he didn't remember an earlier complaint from a man who warned that he had seen the priest naked in a swimming pool with two young girls.
"Father Fernandez was also criminally charged in the late 1980s, but the case was dismissed at the request of an alleged victim."
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