February 9, 2017 DATES SET FOR LISTENING SESSIONS AND SERVICE OF HEALING Bishop Donald Kettler and other members of a diocesan response team will hold listening sessions at 11 sites around the Diocese of St. Cloud as a result of claims of alleged sexual misconduct by clergy who served in various parishes in the…
May 29, 2016 CLAIMS RECEIVED BY DIOCESE OF ST. CLOUD UNDER MINNESOTA CHILD VICTIMS ACT Bishop Donald Kettler asks Catholics in the Diocese of Saint Cloud to join him in praying for healing for all victims and survivors of clergy sexual abuse, and for a just resolution to the civil claims made under the Minnesota…
May 25, 2016 STATEMENT FROM MINNESOTA CATHOLIC BISHOPS RE: EXPIRATION OF MN CHILD VICTIMS ACT The following statement was released today by Minnesota’s Catholic bishops. Bishop Donald Kettler of St. Cloud is one of the statement’s signers: The last three years have brought fresh light to the painful reality of sexual abuse and those who…
May 23, 2016 STATEMENT RE: CLAIMS UNDER THE MINNESOTA CHILD VICTIMS ACT The Diocese of Saint Cloud is in the process of reviewing claims made against it that allege past sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy and religious orders who served in the diocese. The Minnesota Child Victims Act, which temporarily…
May 10, 2016 STATEMENT REGARDING FATHER GREGORY POSER, OSC Bishop Donald Kettler has been notified that Crosier Father Gregory Poser has been accused of sexually abusing a minor in the 1970s when he was serving at St. Odilia Church in Shoreview, Minnesota. St. Odilia is in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which immediately…
April 18, 2016 Three listening sessions have been scheduled next month following a recent allegation of sexual misconduct involving Benedictine Father Othmar Hohmann. The sessions are: 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 4, at Immaculate Conception Church in New Munich; 6 p.m., Wednesday, May 11, at St. Boniface Church in Cold Spring; and 7:30 p.m., May 11,…
April 4, 2016 Two listening sessions previously scheduled for February following a recent allegation of past sexual misconduct involving Father Antonio Marfori have been rescheduled for later this month. The previous sessions were canceled due to inclement weather. They have been rescheduled for the following times: • 6 p.m., Thursday, April 21, for St. Paul…
March 16, 2016 STATEMENT REGARDING TODAY’S COMPLAINT AND HEARING The Diocese of St. Cloud has been named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit alleging that Father Antonio Marfori sexually abused a minor in the late 1970s while he was an instructor at Cathedral High School in St. Cloud. The diocese is reviewing this complaint….
January 14, 2016 An allegation of past sexual misconduct involving Father Antonio Marfori was recently made. Because of this allegation, Bishop Kettler has asked a Diocesan Response Team to hold listening sessions for the people of all the parishes in which Father Marfori served. There will be listening sessions on the following dates: Tuesday, Feb….
January 13, 2016 DIOCESE OF ST. CLOUD STATEMENT REGARDING FR. OTHMAR HOHMANN, OSB The Diocese of St. Cloud is among the defendants named in a civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse committed by the late Benedictine Father Othmar Hohmann, a monk of Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville who also served in parishes within the Diocese of…
