MICHIGAN
Daily Tribune
By Jameson Cook, jamie.cook@macombdaily.com, @jamesoncook on Twitter
POSTED: 04/16/16
The Archdiocese of Detroit is seeking to remove a priest from his role at an Eastpointe facility for pregnant teenagers because he was found to have had sexual misconduct with a teenage girl in the 1970s.
The Archdiocese believes the Rev. Kenneth Kaucheck should not continue as development director of Gianna House Pregnancy and Parenting Residence, which he founded last year along with Sister Mary Diane Masson in a former convent adjacent to St. Veronica Catholic Church in Eastpointe.
Kaucheck, while serving as a priest in Royal Oak and Ferndale, was banned in April 2009 from public ministry and placed on “temporary restriction” by the Archdiocese of Detroit after the organization determined that in 1976 he committed sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old girl who he was counseling at Guardian Angels Parish in Clawson. He was removed that parish and transferred to a Dearborn parish.
Kaucheck, 62 when he received the banishment, in 2009 left his post as pastor at St. Mary Parish in Royal Oak and St. James Parish in Ferndale.
Archdiocese spokesman Joe Kohn told The Macomb Daily on Thursday the organization has acted to remove Kaucheck from his position at Gianna House subject to the requirements under the Catholic’s Church’s legal process, the Congregation for Clerk of the Vatican.
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