Fr. Norbert F. Showalter

Ordained: 1939
Status: Accused

Died: 12/31/1971
Diocese: Archdiocese of Dubuque IA

Died 12/31/1971. Name included on the diocese’s list updated 9/13/2018. The diocese received an accusation in 2015 that Showalter sexually abused male minors. In a letter published 5/22/2015 in the Telegraph Herald, a man alleged that Showalter sexually abused him over a two-year period, beginning when the man was age 14 in 1954, at St. Mary’s in Lamont.


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