MINNESOTA
Owatonna People’s Press

By JEFFREY JACKSON jjackson@owatonna.com
Posted on December 16, 2013

Two priests with ties to Steele County and three others with ties to Dodge County are among the 14 priests named Monday by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona as being “credibly accused” of sexually abusing minors.

The two priests with Steele County ties have since died. Two of the priests with Dodge County ties have died and the third has had his ministerial privileges suspended.

The diocese filed the list in Ramsey County District Court Monday morning, a day before a deadline set by a judge.

Most of the priests on the list served in Catholic churches and schools from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, though two served in the last decade.

The priests with ties to Steele County are:

The Rev. Sylvester F. Brown. He was ordained May 31, 1956, and…