MISSOURI
Berger’s Beat
. . .Duluth’s Catholic diocese has declared bankruptcy because of an $8 million verdict in a pedophile priest case involving a former Missouri and southern Illinois cleric. He’s Fr. Vincent Fitzgerald, who spent 13 years in Belleville (and shorter stints in Alton, Godfrey and Peoria) until his death in 2009. He also worked in Mansfield in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau diocese. .
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