PEORIA (IL)
Patch
November 26, 2018
By Rebecca Bream
Rev. Jeffrey Windy previously served time for manufacturing and selling a date-rape drug.
For the second time since 2002, a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria has been removed from ministry, and the reason why isn’t exactly clear. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Rev. Jeffrey Windy’s superiors in Peoria learned last winter Windy had visited two people involved in a criminal court case, leading the police to question him and his boss in the Ottawa parishes, the Rev. David Kipfer.
Windy was removed from ministry in March by Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky because, according to diocese official Monsignor James Kruse, Windy didn’t ask for his superiors’ approval before getting involved in the criminal case, showing he hadn’t overcome what Kruse called “a pattern of imprudence,” the Chicago Tribune said.
The Catholic Diocese of Peoria and Windy wouldn’t provide a comment to the news outlet, but the Tribune said Kruse confirmed Jenky filed a canon law case in Rome for more action on Windy’s status.
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