ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Michael D. Sorkin0
Monsignor Joseph D. Pins was pastor of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis and his funeral Mass will be celebrated there next week.
He died this week of cancer at age 70, the Archdiocese of St. Louis announced Thursday.
The Cathedral, 4431 Lindell Boulevard, is still known as the “New Cathedral,” although the first Mass was celebrated there in 1914. It is the seat of the archbishop and is considered the spiritual center of the archdiocese.
Monsignor Pins was named rector there in 2004. …
A spokesman for the Archdiocese said he could not answer any questions about Monsignor Pins or his accomplishments that weren’t included in a news release about his death.
Monsignor Pins is named in a pending civil lawsuit accusing the Archdiocese and the archbishop of covering up for a priest, the Rev. Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang. The priest was accused of molesting a teenage girl in Lincoln County. The suit claims the archbishop and the monsignor ignored Jiang’s requests to reassign the priest from the New Cathedral, where he met the girl. Criminal charges in the case have been dropped.
In 2004, Monsignor Pins was named to a newly created post of episcopal vicar at the St. Louis Review. That put him in charge of the archdiocesan newspaper, representing the archbishop.
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