ST. PAUL (MN)
Pioneer Press
July 20, 2018
By Rubén Rosario
Although he was a former altar boy at his Chicago-area church and spent 16 years in Catholic schools, Timothy O’Malley ‘fesses up that he’s hardly the Scripture-quoting, every-Sunday-church-going type.
“I was raised Catholic but I probably go to church about three times a year,” the 62-year-old father of two said during a chat this week. “Also, I married a Methodist.”
O’Malley was blunt in 2014 when then-embattled Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt, reeling from a growing clergy abuse scandal that he inherited and from his botched handling of a parish priest later convicted and sent to prison in a child-abuse case, selected the veteran Minnesota lawman to head and revamp the archdiocese’s Office of Ministerial Standards and Safe Environment.
O’Malley’s credentials ranged from beat cop in Rochester, Minn., FBI agent, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator and agency head to deputy chief administrative law judge before accepting the church post. He was not seeking absolution.
“I said that if they were looking for that kind of church-going Catholic, then I was not the best person for the job,” he said.
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