WISCONSIN
WKOW
By David Johnson
May 18, 2018
MADISON (WKOW) — It was four years ago when Msgr. Ken Fiedler asked Father William Nolan to help out at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Madison.
“I invited him to come and stay in one of the houses here. Not knowing any allegations were out there. I certainly would not have if I knew anything,” Fiedler said. “Father Bill has been in residence, he’s retired, for the last four years. We have three rectories and he’s one of them. I have another retired priest.”
Nolan’s duties were mostly sacramental.
“Which means mass every day when they can, confessions, baptisms, occasional funerals. But that’s basically it. And I gave him a place to stay,” Fiedler said.
But the arrest of 64-year-old Nolan, accused of multiple counts of child sexual abuse, sent shockwaves through the close-knit church family.
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