MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
by Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio
October 19, 2013
Former Archbishop Harry Flynn has resigned from the board of trustees at the University of St. Thomas amid a growing clergy sexual abuse scandal.
His departure comes less than two weeks after the resignation of another church leader, former vicar general Kevin McDonough.
Flynn oversaw the handling of sexual misconduct cases from 1995 to 2008 as the leader of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. An MPR News investigation found Flynn kept the Rev. Curtis Wehmeyer in ministry despite Wehmeyer’s sexual addiction and sexual misconduct.
Wehmeyer is now in prison for sexually abusing two children and possessing child pornography. Flynn also failed to tell police about a church investigation that found “borderline illegal” pornography on a priest’s computer in 2004, and he approved extra payments to priests who sexually abused children.
The University of St. Thomas announced Flynn’s departure from the board in a news release late Saturday afternoon. It said Flynn resigned on Oct. 17 – the day of the installation of the new president of St. Thomas, Julie Sullivan.
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