Fr. Oswald G. Krusing

Ordained: 1926
Status: Accused

Died: 10/29/1995
Diocese: Archdiocese of Milwaukee WI

Name included on the Archdiocese’s 7/04 list of priests fully restricted from ministry (or who would have been restricted if still living) because of credible allegations of abuse. Krusing retired in 1970 and died in 1995 at age 96. Per his obituary, he spent a year in Rhode Island in the early 1940s as a Trappist monk, then returned to his role as a Milwaukee archdiocesan priest. Served as a Tribunal judge. Documents show that archdiocesan officials knew for decades of allegations of Krusing’s sexual abuse of children, yet kept him in ministry.


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