Documents detailing efforts begun in the early 1980s by officials of the Catholic Church in California to support the petition of a convicted sex offender, the Rev. Stephen Kiesle, to leave the priesthood.
As Joe said 'It is important that a sex offender priest has his "faculties" withdrawn by his bishop, so that he is no longer allowed to function as a priest.'
which makes the final document dated May 11, 1988 from Maurine Behrend, in the Oakland Diocese's Youth Ministries Office all the more disturbing as she expresses her frustration that "a convicted child molester is currently the youth ministry coordinator at St. Joseph's Parish."