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Dallas Morning News

Rudolph Bush

It’s difficult still to go back and read the stories about the pedophile Rudy Kos, who damaged so deeply young boys when he was serving as a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Dallas.

I’m reminded by Dan Michalski’s 1998 story in D Magazine about just how many red flags were ignored so that Kos could be enrolled in Irving’s Holy Trinity Seminary – a place that, in that time, had turned away from the strict sexual discipline that is part and parcel of Roman Catholic priesthood.

Kos went to Holy Trinity long before Charles Grahmann became bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas.

But Grahmann was in charge when the Kos scandal broke. He never read a file full of warnings on Kos and let the pedophile run a parish until 1992 despite continued warning of abuse. One of Kos’ victims, Jay…