ILLINOIS
WGEM
QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) – The priest who called 911 from a church phone in Springfield when he couldn’t get out of handcuffs has been assigned to a Quincy parish.
The Diocese of Springfield confirmed Tuesday that Father Thomas Donovan was recently assigned to serve as parochial vicar at the Church of St. Peter. Donovan was granted a leave of absence last year after a 911 call from Springfield’s St. Aloysias Church surfaced with him claiming he couldn’t get out of handcuffs.
Bishop Thomas John Paprocki says he was advised by a special panel in September that Donovan’s “gradual return to priestly ministry is appropriate.” Donovan was then assigned as chaplain to the Sisters of Saint Francis of the Martyr Saint George.
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