The Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, which entered bankruptcy in 2006, announced yesterday that it has evidence that four clergymen sexually abused minors, including retired Bishop Lawrence Soens, whose case has been referred to the Vatican.

A five-member review board found Soens, who served as bishop of the Sioux City Diocese from 1983 to 1998, guilty of sexually abusing students at Iowa City Regina High School in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was principal. Soens was also found guilty of sexually abusing a male minor when Soens was rector of the St. Ambrose Seminary in Davenport.

Interesting timing.