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	Archbishop Meets with Parishioners after Priest's Sex Conviction Associated Press, carried in Summit Daily News April 13, 2007 http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070413/NEWS/104130093 Fort Collins - Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput met privately with members of a parish whose former priest was convicted of sexually assaulting teenage boys. About 200 people met with Chaput on Thursday night to discuss the case of Timothy Joseph Evans, a defrocked priest who was found guilty in separate trials of molesting teens while he was at churches in Fort Collins and Arvada. Archdiocese spokeswoman Jeanette DeMelo said the meeting at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton church in Fort Collins was intended to begin healing wounds the case has left and to help the archdiocese decide how to proceed. A reporter for the Fort Collins Coloradoan was asked to leave the meeting. "We were really here to visit with the people," Chaput said afterward. Evans, 44, was convicted Monday in Jefferson County District Court of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. Prosecutors alleged he fondled a 16-year-old boy between 1995 and 1997 while assigned to the Spirit of Christ Parish in Arvada. On March 26, Evans was convicted in Larimer County District Court in Fort Collins of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and sexual assault on a child with a pattern of abuse. A man testified that as a teen, he was molested twice by Evans in 1999 in the rectory of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton church. Evans has denied wrongdoing. He faces 10 years to life in prison when he is sentenced May 30 in the Fort Collins case and two to eight years in prison when he is sentenced May 31 in the Arvada case.
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