MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Elizabeth Mohr
emohr@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 10/20/2015
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Tuesday that it is temporarily removing from ministry a priest who was acquitted last year of sexual misconduct with a female parishioner.
The archdiocese launched its investigation into the Rev. Mark Huberty after the criminal case ended and determined the priest might have violated canon law, according to a statement from Archbishop Bernard Hebda.
While the internal investigation, or canonical process, unfolds, Huberty is barred from performing ministerial duties; he cannot “wear a Roman collar or present himself as a priest publicly,” the statement said.
“Removing a priest from ministry, even temporarily, is gravely serious to me and to the Church,” Hebda’s statement said. “But based on the evidence and testimony from those involved, this is the proper course of action.”
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