In the News ... "San Angelo Bishop Emeritus Pfeifer offers statement on priest named in Catholic church scandal"

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Staff Report
• San Angelo Standard Times

SAN ANGELO, TEXAS - The Catholic Diocese of San Angelo's Bishop Emeritus, the Most Rev. Michael Pfeifer, OMI, has issued at statement via email regarding the service of Fr. Thomas Kelley, who was named as a problem priest in a recent grand jury report from Pennsylvania that details decades of systematic sex abuse and cover-up in the Catholic Church.

Kelley, who died in 2005, came to West Texas in 1994, after purported improper sexual conduct in Pennsylvania. He eventually requested and received a transfer to the diocese, which became permanent in 2001 ...

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