MINNESOTA
MinnPost
Oh, good lord … Tom Scheck and a team of reporters at MPR reveal: “The Rev. Stanley Kozlak served nearly three decades in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. But then he fathered a child and the archdiocese needed him gone. Removing Kozlak quietly wouldn’t be cheap, but church leaders knew how to move money discreetly. … Kozlak’s package was part of a secret financial system that let archdiocese leaders divert millions of dollars away from traditional church work to deal with clergy misconduct.” So in other words, being a problem priest for the archdiocese was a ticket to retirement security.
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