CINCINNATI (OH)
Cincinnati Enquirer
By Jane Prendergast, Enquirer staff writer and the Associated Press
A Cincinnati-based mission priest who once served two parishes in the Lexington diocese will stay at Glenmary Home Missioners while he awaits the outcome of sexual misconduct allegations.
The Rev. Pete Richardson was pastor at parishes in West Liberty and Owingsville from July 1994 to January 2004. He was accused of misconduct with a minor. He denied the allegations in a meeting Aug. 8 with the executive council of Glenmary, an organization whose mission is to spread Catholicism in small towns and in rural America.
Richardson is the director of Glenmary's department of pastoral services, which is in Nashville, Tenn. He has moved to Glenmary's headquarters while the allegations are investigated, said Karen Hurley, spokeswoman for the organization.
"That's really all we feel we can say at this point," she said.