“In Wisconsin, if you leave the state, your statute of limitations freezes,” said Peter Isely of Nate’s Mission. “Anytime an offender, anyone who hurts, harms. or assaults a child, should no that they’re not going to get away with it, no matter how old they get.”

"It's the system that McCarrick was part of and represented. That's what needs to be changed and reformed," said Peter Isely, Nate's Mission founder.

"it's not an accident or a case of a few bad apples but there's something about the way the church operates about the culture within the church and the way they train their seminarians literally reproduces sexual violence towards children intergenerationally," said Pearson.

On this episode of FFRF's "Ask an Atheist," FFRF Associate Counsel Sam Grover speaks with Peter Isely and Sarah Pearson, two members of a group dedicated to exposing Catholic priest abuse of children.

“Having the Catholic Church say we’re not participating in the investigation, and then having the DOJ do nothing about that. I don’t know what other institution gets that privilege…” questions Noth.

"Deaf survivors are suffering again because the Archdiocese of Milwaukee has chosen to publicly honor Pope Benedict. Pope Benedict is directly responsible for covering up the crimes committed against myself and others at St. John's School for the Deaf," Arthur Budzynski said.

Nate’s Mission, an advocacy group seeking to end clergy abuse, questioned the legitimacy of the list released by the Superior Diocese. Peter Isley, the nonprofit’s program director, said such a list is only as truthful as the people compiling it.

“No one should be going to this funeral,” said Peter Isley, who was abused by a priest when he was a child, and now leads the survivor advocacy group, Nate’s Mission. “By going to the funeral, priests and bishops are showing the community, they’re above all of it."

AG Kaul said so far they've had over 200 reports of clergy or faith leader abuse and have criminally charged two faith leaders. The initiative also guides survivors to victim services and an anonymous tip line. Some survivors, like Isely, said it's not enough.

Isely said those accomplishments fail in comparison to what he's found in recent years – proof that Weakland not only knew priests were sexually assaulting children in Wisconsin but that he also covered it up.

"It doesn't matter how many languages you speak, whether you went to Julliard, whatever accolades you might have, when you facilitate the sexual assault of hundreds, potentially thousands of children, I think that speaks for itself," said John Pilmaier, a clergy abuse victim survivor.

“It really shows their character,” Egan said. “It shows their lack of commitment, really, to keeping children safe, and that they are looking the other way. They’re not being of service, they’re not being neighbors.”

"So I want to say that this man being buried Tuesday is unrepentant. He died unrepentant for the harm that he caused. And no mercy. He had no mercy on us whatsoever," Isely said.

"They are going to try, with this, to erase history, to eliminate our history as victims as if we never existed, as if this never happened. That is unacceptable," said Peter Isely of the anti-clergy abuse group Nate's Mission.

Survivors, advocates and a former priest were among those protesting the funeral of former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland and encouraging members of the clergy to not attend the service.

Isley…argued that for all the talk about Weakland's liberal values, he shared a "common commitment" with conservative church leaders who wanted to brush aside abuse victims and protect the church. "In that regard, Weakland was one of the most vigorous, zealous architects of this horrific coverup," Isley said.

"It's bad," said Isely. "It's obscene. He was complex. He was sophisticated and all that kind of stuff, but one thing that was not complex about him at all was his fierce devotion to priests that assaulted children.”

Peter Isely, program director of Nate's Mission, issued the following statement: Thousands of children were harmed under his watch, and he bears the responsibility.

What has happened in the course or the review? Has the initiative been fruitful? Throughout the following months, not much has been said by the attorney general. Yet the citizens of Wisconsin have a right to know -- after all, they are paying for the effort.

A Wisconsin advocacy group for victims of clerical sexual abuse says the state’s attorney general has broken his word, downplaying a promised investigation into the state’s five dioceses as a “review” of abuse allegations.