{"id":8531,"date":"2014-05-29T12:52:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T19:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=8531"},"modified":"2014-06-02T12:44:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:44:02","slug":"hoefgen-at-archdiocesan-rectory-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/hoefgen-at-archdiocesan-rectory-in-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoefgen at Archdiocesan Rectory in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we received a tip from a former parishioner that admitted child molester Fran Hoefgen lived with Father David Ostrowski at the Church of the Holy Cross rectory in Minneapolis\u00a0around 2005. \u00a0In 2005, Fran Hoefgen was still a priest and on restriction (since 2002) at Saint John&#8217;s Abbey. Father\u00a0Hoefgen was laicized in\u00a02011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A quick review of public records (see screen shots, below) shows the church&#8217;s address for both Hoefgen and Ostrowski.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8536\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ostrowski_Addresses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8536\" class=\"wp-image-8536 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ostrowski_Addresses-300x79.jpg\" alt=\"Ostrowski_Addresses\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ostrowski_Addresses-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ostrowski_Addresses.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ostrowski Addresses &#8211; Click to View Larger<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8534\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hoefgen_Addresses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8534\" class=\"wp-image-8534 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hoefgen_Addresses-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"Hoefgen_Addresses\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hoefgen_Addresses-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hoefgen_Addresses.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoefgen Addresses &#8211; Click to View Larger<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Map:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1621+University+Ave+NE\/@45.0048869,-93.2623459,17z\">1621 University Ave NE Minneapolis, MN 55413<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Another record search\u00a0shows that Hoefgen may have\u00a0lived at the church&#8217;s rectory from June of 2004 until April of 2006. [ View\u00a0]\n<p>On May 21, 2014, Sister M. Benita at Holy Cross confirmed that Fran Hoefgen was often at the rectory around 2005. Sister Benita\u00a0added that that she knew Hoefgen had some &#8220;issues&#8221; but\u00a0would not say what those issues were.<\/p>\n<p>A former parishioner\u00a0at Holy Cross, who left the Catholic church because of the sexual abuse issue, also saw Hoefgen on church grounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the Archdiocese Know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did the\u00a0Archdiocese of St. Paul\/Minneapolis know\u00a0that Father David Ostrowski\u00a0(a former Saint John&#8217;s Abbey monk) was\u00a0harboring an\u00a0admitted child molester [ <a title=\"1984 Statement: Hoefgen Admitted Contact With Minor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/1984-statement-hoefgen-admitted-contact-with-minor\/\">View<\/a> ]\u00a0at the rectory? Did Hoefgen pay rent? Meet with parishioners? Help with parish duties? Say mass? Entertain?<\/p>\n<p>Has\u00a0Father Ostrowski provided Fran Hoefgen access to the rectory and\/or parishioners at Ostrowski&#8217;s current church, Immaculate Heart of Mary in Minnetonka?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we received a tip from a former parishioner that admitted child molester Fran Hoefgen lived with Father David Ostrowski at the Church of the Holy Cross rectory in Minneapolis\u00a0around 2005. \u00a0In 2005, Fran Hoefgen was still a priest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/hoefgen-at-archdiocesan-rectory-in-2005\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,14,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-ostrowski","category-fran-hoefgen","category-sister-m-benita","wp-image-borders"],"views":1531,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8531"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8608,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions\/8608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}