WHEELING — The Washington Post today publicly released the 60-page investigative report into disgraced former bishop Michael Bransfield. You can read a copy of the report by clicking here.

While the findings have been reported in this newspaper and The Post, there are some interesting items contained in the report.

One item discusses how Bransfield’s three vicars — Kevin Quirk, Frederick Annie and Anthony Cincinnati, served as enablers for the former bishop to sexually harass young seminarians and also to spend lavishly on himself with diocesan funds.

Of Quirk, the former Judicial Vicar who was sent out of Wheeling following Bransfield’s retirement, the report had this to say: “While the judicial vicar played an important role in advising certain witnesses to speak to Archbishop Lori, in his 13-year tenure in Bishop Bransfield’s episcopacy, he was not only a witness to the bishop’s improper conduct, but … was the judicial vicar who frequently summoned the men to overnight stays at the bishop’s residence or requested that (some) travel both domestically and internationally with (Bransfield) as early as their days as seminarians.”

If a seminarian would resist a visit to Bransfield, Quirk would say, “your presence is required.”

According to the report, “multiple witnesses expressed skepticism that the judical vicar would have ‘rocked the boat’ … particularly because Bransfield had placed (Quirk) in several positions of significant prominence and influence” in the diocese.

Quirk served as president of Wheeling Hospital’s board, chairman of then-Wheeling Jesuit University’s board; and president of the board of Welty Homes.”