ST. LOUIS (MO)
KMOX Radio
December 21, 2018
By Brian Kelly
A former Metro East pastor is being called out today as survivors demand the Springfield, Illinois Diocese release the names of more allegedly abusive priests.
The Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests says Fr. Thomas Meyer, who was pastor at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Alton for eight years, was on the list of alleged abusers made public by the Minneapolis-St. Paul archdiocese last month, but was left off the list released by Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki. He also worked at St. Henry’s Seminary, King’s House of Retreats and St. Henry’s Oblate Residence in the Belleville Diocese.
The group says Fr. Henry Willenborg, who is accused of sexually abusing a high school girl and impregnating an adult parishoner in Quincy, was also left off Paprocki’s list. He also allegedly abandoned his son, who died of cancer at age 22.
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