MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 10/07/2013
A Plymouth man said Monday that he was molested by a now-dead priest who served in the 1930s at St. James parish in St. Paul, among other churches.
Frank Meuers, 74, said he wrote to the longtime head of public relations for the archdiocese in November 2010, disclosing abuse by the Rev. Rudolph Henrich at a church in Golden Valley.
No church official replied to Meuers until more than nine months later.
Kevin McDonough, then vicar general of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, expressed his “embarrassment” to Meuers in his Aug. 29, 2011, letter. He apologized that no one had yet responded to Meuers.
McDonough continued by saying he was the archdiocesan official who “began to respond to the abuse committed by Rudolph Henrich” in 1991, 20 years earlier. Henrich died in July 1992, months after McDonough became involved.
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