MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Madeleine Baran Sep 8, 2015
The Rev. Gilbert Gustafson, a priest convicted of child sex abuse, is behind a new effort to raise money to buy the headquarters of the Twin Cities archdiocese and turn it into a healing center for abuse survivors.
The website for the nonprofit Gilead Project, which seeks to raise money online, does not mention the priest’s criminal conviction or acknowledge any abuse allegations against Gustafson. It also does not indicate that he is a priest.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis wants to sell the nearly 60,000 square-foot chancery property across the street from the Cathedral of St. Paul to pay creditors in bankruptcy. The archdiocese’s realtor has listed the price as “negotiable.”
Gustafson is one of two people mentioned by name on the Gilead Project website. The other is Susan Pavlak, who met Gustafson a few years ago at a restorative justice program run by the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
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