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Chicago Tribune

By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune reporter
June 12, 2013

Advocate Health Care has disclosed that a former Roman Catholic priest removed from ministry 20 years ago for a substantiated allegation of sexual misconduct with a minor will retire at the end of the month.

Russell Romano of Bolingbrook, who was a priest in the Chicago Archdiocese from 1973 to 1991, has worked for Advocate for 12 years, hospital officials said. According to the system’s website, he works for a publicly funded treatment program for Illinois health care professionals.

In May, victims advocates expressed concern that Romano worked as a counselor at an Advocate health clinic in Des Plaines.

This week, leaders of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests received a letter addressing those concerns. In the letter to Barbara Blaine and David Clohessy, Kevin Brady, senior vice president and chief human…