MINNESOTA
The Post Review
By Derrick Knutson
December 11, 2013
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis last week released a list of former priests with credible claims against them of sexual abuse of a minor. Among those on the list is Clarence Vavra, 74, who served at Church of the Sacred Heart in Rush City and St. Gregory Catholic Church in North Branch in 1977-1978.
Vavra started his tenure with Catholic Church as an associate priest at St. Rose of Lima in Roseville in 1965, and retired from the Shieldsville parish in 2003, where he also served as an associate priest.
During his years as an associate priest, pastor and administrator, the Catholic Church moved him 16 times in Minnesota. Many of those assignments were one or two-year stints.
Vavra currently lives in New Prague.
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