Accused Priest Reinstated by Vatican Working in Miami VA Hospital
Miami, Florida --
A US Navy chaplain accused of child sexual abuse who won reinstatement to the active priesthood through an appeal to the Vatican began work this week at a Miami veterans affairs hospital.
A spokeswoman for the Miami Veteran Affairs Medical Center says the Reverend Brian Bjorklund began work Tuesday at the hospital. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit suspended Bjorklund in 2003 over abuse that allegedly took place in the mid-1970s. Bjorklund was working as a Navy chaplain in California at the time of his suspension.
But in 2004 the Vatican reinstated Bjorklund to the ministry. It said the accusation against him -- having sex with a 16-year-old boy in the 1970s -- did not violate church law at the time. The hospital spokeswoman, Susan Ward, says nothing came up in a background check on Bjorklund.
Read the article at First Coast News Dated June 02, 2005
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A US Navy chaplain accused of child sexual abuse who won reinstatement to the active priesthood through an appeal to the Vatican began work this week at a Miami veterans affairs hospital.
A spokeswoman for the Miami Veteran Affairs Medical Center says the Reverend Brian Bjorklund began work Tuesday at the hospital. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit suspended Bjorklund in 2003 over abuse that allegedly took place in the mid-1970s. Bjorklund was working as a Navy chaplain in California at the time of his suspension.
But in 2004 the Vatican reinstated Bjorklund to the ministry. It said the accusation against him -- having sex with a 16-year-old boy in the 1970s -- did not violate church law at the time. The hospital spokeswoman, Susan Ward, says nothing came up in a background check on Bjorklund.
Read the article at First Coast News Dated June 02, 2005
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