Kansas Priest Suspended As Conduct Probe Unfolds

Washington Times
July 19, 2017

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/18/kansas-priest-suspended-as-conduct-probe-unfolds/

An associate pastor at two suburban Kansas City churches is suspended as state child-welfare workers and the archdiocese investigate his conduct, in one case involving a juvenile, the governing Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas said Tuesday.

The archdiocese said in a statement that Father Scott Kallal was pulled from public ministry duties after two sources accused him of “boundary violations.” The archdiocese added that its preliminary investigation “revealed violations of some of the archdiocese’s safe environment guidelines which all clerics, employees and volunteers are asked to observe when interacting with young people.”

Archdiocese spokeswoman Anita McSorley declined to elaborate.

The archdiocese said Kallal’s suspension was announced last weekend during Masses at two churches he served - Overland Park’s Holy Spirit Church and St. Patrick Church in Kansas City, Kansas.

The Kansas Department for Children and Families declined to comment Tuesday. Messages left by The Associated Press with police in Overland Park and Kansas City, Kansas, weren’t returned.