MINNESOTA
KAAL
[with video]
By: Beth McDonough
Students and faculty at the University of St. Thomas are working to overcome a scandal brought to light this week.
That scandal involves a priest who’s a high-profile professor at the University of St. Thomas.
At 3:30 p.m. Tuesday students made their way to the Anderson Center on Campus anxious to hear uplifting words in upsetting times. “It’s been really enlightening to see the church go on even with these problems,” says Jacob Goodwin, a sophomore at St. Thomas.
Goodwin wears his pride on his chest and in his heart. He’s a Catholic Studies student under Father Michael Keating, the professor and priest named in a sexual misconduct lawsuit. “This failure of his doesn’t change the love and respect we have for him,” he said.
The special closed-door meeting for students and staff follows a mass email from the new president. In it, Julie Sullivan says she learned about the suit from media reports, calling it “shocking and sad.”
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