ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger’s Beat
A notorious predator who pimped some of his victims to his fellow clerics, including one who later lived in University City, passed away in Iowa. Fr. James Janssen was accused of molesting dozens of kids and enabling Fr. William Wiebler to assault some of them. Wiebler came to a Catholic facility here, got an apartment 750 feet from Delmar Harvard elementary school and about 1,000 feet from Julia Goldstein preschool. “Neighbors often saw that fat, white-bearded priest – who resembled Santa Claus – on his third-floor back porch, dressed in a flimsy robe (watching) children walking home from school,” according to one news account. . .Meanwhile, a Memphis newspaper has turned out a pleasing profile of Bishop Richard Stika, a former St. Louis priest who now leads the Knoxville diocese. . .
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