As heard on KMOX...Former Yakima Priest Resigns St Ambrose

The Yakima priest who was assigned to work in St Louis, has resigned his position at St Ambrose Catholic Church - so we are to understand from a KMOX radio report at noon today.

As recent Letter to the Editor of the Yakima Herald Republic about this matter states:

Time to move on
To the editor:
Judge ye not, less ye be judged. It appears by the recent articles in the Yakima Herald-Republic (Dec. 21, 22 and 23) that the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, and Yakima local group Voice of the Faithful believe they should be above the FBI, County Prosecutor and the Yakima Diocesan Lay Board, which found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing by the priest in question.

So what exactly does he need to come back and defend or explain? Counseling and medical care are confidential. Should we all be subject to divulge our personal lives after being found innocent of any wrongdoing? Rather, he should return to Yakima and sue for defamation of character.

The priest served his country in the Armed Forces and then went on to meet the many years of study to become a servant of his Catholic faith. These fellow members of the Knights of Columbus at Holy Family Parish, Herman Fischer, Jack Glesener, Art Wentz, Tony Ott, Bernard Novacek, John Puccinelli, Urban Beaudry, Ben Herres, Richard Clark, and Lou DeLuca, and I feel many parishioners have been insulted by this small group of outsiders and they could be better served by leaving the Diocese of Yakima and stop abusing a very good man who has been found innocent by all who have the authority to judge his role as priest and man of God. He who is without fault cast the first stone.

GERALD L. FOY
Yakima

I have found no links which verify the KMOX report although KMOX reported that SNAP was busy handing out leaflets and that the Archdioces had confirmed the resignation.

We will update this as further details are made known.

Story from 21 Dec 2006

Post from 9 Jan 2007