Fr. Stanislaus Bur

Ordained for the Diocese of Grand Rapids, incardinated into the Diocese of Saginaw in 1971. Retired without faculties in 1983. Accused in 1992 of molesting an Ionia altar boy in 1958. The Grand Rapids Diocese found the allegations credible and paid up to $1,000/month for the victim’s therapy for several years. Bur was suspended from active ministry. In 11/2005 he was permanently removed from ministry and given a life of prayer and penance. Additional allegations of old abuse were made public in 3/2008. Included in the MI Attorney General’s 12/15/2025 Diocese of Grand Rapids Report. Per the report, Bur was accused in 5/2006 of sexually abusing a boy, age 13, and another boy during a road trip in 1967. In 2007 one of the accusers said Bur also sexually abused his cousin. In late 2006 another man told the Diocese that Bur sexually abused him beginning when he was 11 in the late 1950s. He said he was also sexually abused by then-teenage seminarian Richard Lawie at age 14 or 15. In 10/2007 a man alleged Bur sexually abused him beginning when he was age 12 or 13 in 1957 or 1958 in Ionia. The man said he knew of four other people abused by Bur and that all of them became alcoholics. Included in the MI Attorney General’s 6/25/2026 Diocese of Saginaw Report. It shows that the Diocese received an allegation of recent abuse in 1972 from a 14-year-old boy, and another from a 13-year-old boy. Bur was assigned to a Beal City parish at the time Both boys said incidents occurred during overnights at Bur’s cabin and that Bur gave them alcohol. Bur was reassigned. He was sent for a psychological evaluation in 1983 due to “rumors,” after which he was made to retire. In 2008 a man said Bur sexually abused him at ages 8-9 in 1978-1980 in Beaver MI. Bur died 2/1/2009. A man reported in 2018 that Bur sexually abused him at ages 16-18 in the late 1960s. The abuse included rape. Accused in a legal claim in 2024 of fondling a boy in 1973.