MINNESOTA
KARE
ST. PAUL, Minn. — An open letter written by Archbishop John Nienstedt Monday morning began with a common storyline.
Nienstedt was writing to inform the masses that a former priest, Clarence Vavra, who served 38 years in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, told church officials in 1995 he sexually abused young boys in 1975.
Nienstedt claims Vavra was sent to treatment for his self-confessed crimes but those were not disclosed further. Vavra was never criminally charged.
Nienstedt said how the Archdiocese handled that was wrong.
“Serious errors were made by the Archdiocese in dealing with him,” Nienstedt wrote.
The Archbishop went on suggesting that those kinds of wrongs won’t happen again.
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