MINNESOTA
Fox 9
[with video]
[Doe 1 Order Releasing Names of Credibly Accused Priests]
On Thursday, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will comply with a court order to name priests who have been sued, criminally charged, or publicly identified in a child sex abuse case by releasing a list of names and locations where each credibly accused priest worked.
Some Catholics in the metro area may be in for a shock because half of the parishes in the state — 92 of 188 — have been notified that at least one of the men touched by the sex abuse scandal was assigned to their church.
“It’s going to shock them — the level and depth of clergy abuse that surrounds them,” Bob Schwiderski, of the victims’ advocacy group SNAP, said.
For some parishes, like St. Wenceslaus in New Prague, Minn., multiple priests allegedly passed through — including Father Clarence Vavra, now 74, who admitted to molesting several boys in the 1970s at the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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