MINNESOTA
Le Sueur News-Herald
Suzy Rook
Three sexual abuse survivors have identified three priests from the Diocese of New Ulm as child abusers.
The priests, all ordained in the diocese, are being publicly named for the first time.
Fr. Bernard Steiner was ordained in 1964 and worked in several parishes throughout southern and west-central Minnesota during his clerical career, including parishes and schools in Lafayette, Jessenland and Henderson.
Steiner retired from active ministry in 2005. His accuser is alleging the abuse occurred at the Church of St. Paul in Comfrey in the 1970s.
Fr. Richard Gross was ordained in 1962 and worked in parishes in New Ulm, Taunton, Rosen, Hutchinson and Watkins. Gross retired from ministry in 2003. The abuse in the Gross case is alleged to have occurred in the mid-1960s at St. Mary’s parish in New Ulm.
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