MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 07/31/2013
The Rev. Daniel Conlin, a St. Paul priest who fathered a child with a married woman, has been suspended from “his faculties as a priest” by the archdiocese, according to a fellow cleric.
“It is with personal and fraternal sadness that I write to you about the recent events concerning Father Daniel Conlin,” Rev. Charles Lachowitzer, pastor at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Eagan, said in a letter Monday to parishioners and staff.
“His faculties as a priest have been temporarily suspended and for the time being, he is no longer able to exercise his public ministry,” said the letter, posted on the church website.
Conlin, 51, did not immediately respond to a message left for him.
The Pioneer Press reported July 21 about Conlin’s affair, his continued involvement with the child’s family, the response by the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the reaction of Conlin’s former parishioners.
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