ST. PAUL (MN)
Patrick J. Wall Blog
September 29, 2017
You may have read recently about how the Holy See withdrew Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella from the Nunciature in Washington D.C.
One thing Father Colman J. Barry OSB taught us over and over again: the past is prologue to the future.
So with the Capella case I put the thesis to the test: Is there evidence that fallen priests are assigned to the Holy See’s Diplomatic Corp with prior notice for offending against minor children?
Lo and behold, a simple Google search found Reverend Daniel R. Pater of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
Father Pater sexually abused a 14-year-old female in Dayton, Ohio on his first assignment after ordination in 1979.
Fr. Pater admitted to the conduct.
Most civilized countries call this child sexual abuse.
Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk then exercised the geographic solution by sending Fr. Pater out of the jurisdiction to Rome to the Holy See’s Diplomatic Corps.
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