SERVITES ORDER PULLNG OUT

MISSOURI
Berger’s Beat

June 3, 2015

After 88 years of staffing Affton’s Seven Holy Fathers parish, a religious order known as the Servites are pulling out because their numbers are declining.

Fr. John Brennell, an archdiocesan priest, is now the pastor. Records about abusive Servite priests – and clerics from two other religious orders that operate here, the Carmelites and the Redemptorists – were recently released in California

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