MINNESOTA
Albert Lea Tribune
Two priests who served in Albert Lea, plus one in both New Richland and Wells, were identified on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona’s list of priests accused of sexually abusing minors.
The southeastern Minnesota diocese filed the list in Ramsey County District Court on Monday. That’s a day before the deadline set by a Ramsey County judge.
All four of the priests served in the 1950s and ’60s. They are the following:
• Thomas Adamson, now 80, who served a stint at St. Theodore Catholic Church in Albert Lea in the 1960s who faces a civil lawsuit in Ramsey County over allegations of sexual abuse. He was also released on the list released last week of accused priests by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Adamson served in the St. Theodore Catholic Church parish in 1967 and 1968, at which time he was also chaplain of Lea College, an institution of higher learning on the west side of Albert Lea that shut down in 1973. He was removed from the ministry in 1985 and lives in Rochester.
• William D. Curtis was assigned to the St. Theodore parish in August 1968, where he served until receiving a new assignment at St. Teresa in Mapleton in January 1976.
His ministerial privileges were suspended in July 1990 and died in April 2001.
• Ferdinand L. Kaiser, who served in the All Saints parish in New Richland starting Dec. 3, 1952, until he received a new assignment in April 1967 in Iosco.
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