Peter Isely, the program director of Nate’s Mission…said after the Milwaukee Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy protections in 2011 under financial pressure over sexual abuse, accusers submitted claims in the proceedings involving more than 200 other clerics, church employees and order members. “Who benefits from (omissions to lists)? The offenders who covered it up,” [said Isely] 

Before the funeral Mass, survivors of clergy sexual abuse organized a protest outside the church. The group accused Bishop Sklba of relocating priests who had abused children from one parish to another. They distributed pamphlets to attendees outlining their accusations against the late bishop.

"You can not put the devastation, the horror and the misery that, unfortunately, this man is responsible for and bury it into a hole of forgetfulness," said Peter Isely, director of Nate's Mission. "That is not the way to move forward."