Disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley will reveal to the Archdiocese of Miami the name of the Roman Catholic priest he says abused him almost four decades ago, his attorney said Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Gerald Richman, speaking at a news conference, said Foley also will agree to counseling provided through the church as a part of his recovery from alcoholism and sexual abuse.

“This is all part of the healing process for Mark Foley,” Richman said.

The disclosure that Foley, 52, will name the clergyman he said molested him between the ages of 13 and 15 comes two weeks after the Fort Pierce Republican abruptly resigned his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives after being confronted with sexually explicit Internet exchanges he had with teenage pages.

Two days later the 12-year congressman entered an unidentified rehabilitation facility, and through another attorney, David Roth, announced he was gay and that he had been abused by a clergyman without offering any other spe-cifics or a church affiliation.

Through his attorneys, Foley has denied any sexual contact with minors.

Church officials requested on Oct. 5 that Foley reveal the name of the alleged abuser to prosecutors. Richman said he hopes the archdiocese will make public the name of Foley’s alleged abuser, but he said he won’t know that until he meets with church officials. He said he hoped that could happen as soon as today.

Attorney Gerald Richman speaks during a news conference in West Palm Beach, Fla. Richman said Tuesday that former Republican Congressman Mark Foley, who claimed he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic clergyman when he was a teen, will reveal the man's identity to the Archdiocese of Miami.

Another investigation

In Washington, House page program overseers this week discussed a camping trip that Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took with two former pages and others in 1996, a congressional official said Tuesday. The trip is under review by the Justice Department.

The five-member House Page Board, three lawmakers and two House officials, took no action and did not have any information beyond recent news accounts of the trip, the official said.

While the Page Board does not have investigators, they could ask Kolbe to meet with them. He has denied through an aide that anything inappropriate occurred during the camping trip.

Kolbe said in a statement Tuesday that he had not been contacted by anyone about the trip. “But if I am, I will fully cooperate with the appropriate authorities,” he said.

When the Foley scandal became public in late September, House Speaker Dennis Hastert asked the chairman of the Page Board, GOP Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois, to investigate the page system.

“We want to make sure that all our pages are safe and the page system is safe,” Hastert said.