Rev. Michael Pfleger is stepping away from his popular ministry while under investigation for another sexual abuse allegation.
to St. Sabina that summer after the review panel found “insufficient reason to suspect” that the passionate anti-violence advocate was guilty of the allegations.
The two brothers, in their 60s and living in Texas, had alleged in the 2021 claims to the archdiocese that they were molested over several years beginning in the 1970s at Precious Blood Catholic Church on Chicago’s West Side when Pfleger was a seminarian, and the brothers were members of the choir. The abuse continued, the brothers said, when Pfleger was a deacon at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Parish in Glenview and at St. Sabina.
Pfleger maintained his innocence at the time and his legal team said the allegations were false, concocted in hopes of receiving a financial statement.In a May 2021 letter, following the review board’s decision, Cupich told St. Sabina parishioners that their longtime priest would be returning as senior pastor. Cupich, at the time, wrote: “The review board has concluded that there is insufficient reason to suspect Father Pfleger is guilty of these allegations.
Inspired to become a priest by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, Pfleger as a young seminarian student chose to live and work in the predominantly Black community at Precious Blood while commuting to a Mundelein seminary for classes, according to hisand Tribune archives. He was ordained in 1975. For decades, the firebrand white minister has led Chicago’s largest Black Catholic parish and crusaded against racism and poverty.
Hollander also represented the two Texas brothers. And he previously represented some victims of defrocked priest Daniel McCormack in an infamous abuse case that helped lead to an overhaul of Chicago church policy.“Unfortunately, the process of the Archdiocese today is that a priest is presumed guilty until proven innocent. Priests are vulnerable targets to anyone at any time.
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