Wisdom and Prudence in Action

By Kevin O'brien
Waiting for Godot to Leave
July 24, 2014

http://thwordinc.blogspot.com/2014/07/wisdom-and-prudence-in-action.html

One of the things revealed in the documents that have been released concerning the Fr. Kolar case in St. Paul is that after Kolar was sent away for treatment and it became obvious that he was both initiating sexual contact with adult women he was counseling, and also abusing a minors - and after the psychiatrists who evaluated him indicated the he had a serious personality disorder, the archbishop and his cronies decided that their options were either ...

1. Make Fr. Kolar DIRECTOR OF GUIDANCE at the seminary (where he could guide and form young men who were becoming priests)

2. Put him to work AT A PARISH (where he would be free to counsel more young women.  Note that the archdiocese made a point of not informing any laity of Fr. Kolar's abusive behavior, so women approaching Fr. Kolar for counseling at a parish would not know the risk they were taking.)

And in neither case would any of the bishops around the country be informed of Kolar's previous work in NET Ministries nationwide, where he had access to plenty of teenage girls over the years. This despite the bishop of St. Cloud, who had caught wind of this, suggesting that they do so.

This is after TWO lawsuits were filed and SEVERAL victims had come forward.

Kolar has since left the priesthood, is married, and draws his full priest pension.  Of his sexual molestation of girls under his care, he says ...
 

As I look back on all of that now, I see that I was simply using them ... because of my sexual needs.