Wehmeyer, convicted of sexual abuse, removed from the priesthood

MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio

Peter Cox Mar 11, 2015

A former St. Paul priest — now serving a five-year prison sentence for sexually abusing two boys —

Curtis Wehmeyer, 50, was sentenced in 2012 for abusing a 12-year-old and 14-year-old boy and possessing child pornography while serving at St. Paul’s Church of the Blessed Sacrament. In November 2014, he was charged with second-degree sexual assault in Wisconsin.

In a written statement Wednesday, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Pope Francis dismissed Wehmeyer, who has been “permanently and definitively barred from presenting himself as a

Wehmeyer served in several St. Paul area churches from 2001 to 2011

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