MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
By Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio
Dec. 5, 2013
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has released the names of 30 priests it believes sexually abused children between 1950 and 2013.
The archdiocese also released the names of four other priests who had been included on an earlier list, but church officials now say those four should not have been included. A Ramsey County judge ordered the archdiocese Monday to release a list of 33 priests that had been sealed since 2009.
Seven of the priests named today were not previously known to the public as accused abusers. Five of those seven are still living. Others, such as the Rev. Robert Kapoun, are already well known through lawsuits and media coverage. About one-third of the priests on the list are dead.
The accused priests have served at nearly half — 92, in total — of the 188 parishes in the archdiocese, according to an email sent to priests Wednesday by vicar general Rev. Charles Lachowitzer, the archbishop’s top deputy.
The archdiocese released the names on its website and in the print edition of The Catholic Spirit newspaper, along with each priest’s birth year, ordination year, parish assignment history, current status and city of residence. For the deceased priests, it also released the year of death.
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