Summary of Case: Thomas A. Kuhn was a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, ordained in 1967. For over twenty years he worked at Elder High School as a teacher, vice principal and then principal. During that time he was assigned to a series of area parishes as an assistant and, for several years, pastored one. Kuhn left Elder in July 1988. The following year he began a twelve-year stint as pastor of Incarnation in Centerville, OH which is near Dayton and in the northern reaches of the archdiocese. He was also involved with nearby Alter High School as a teacher and sports team chaplain.
In the early 1990s Incarnation parents began to complain to the school principal that Kuhn was showing undue attention to their young sons, sending them to class late after mass and taking them out of class to his home. The principal confronted Kuhn, but the behavior continued. A former Alter High student said in 2002 that in 1994 she informed the archdiocese that a former student told her Kuhn had touched him in ways that made him
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Robert Bellarmine
Italian Jesuit cardinal and saint (1542–1621)
Saint
Robert Bellarmine
SJ
17th-century portrait of Robert Bellarmine, Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus
Church
Catholic Church
Archdiocese
Capua
Appointed
18 March 1602
Installed
21 April 1602
Term ended
August 1605
Predecessor
Cesare Costa
Successor
Antonio Caetani Jr.
Other post(s)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Ordination
19 March 1570
Consecration
21 April 1602 by Clement VIII
Created cardinal
3 March 1599 by Clement VIII
Rank
Cardinal-Priest
Born
(1542-10-04)4 October 1542
Montepulciano, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died
17 September 1621(1621-09-17) (aged 78) Rome, Papal States
Coat of arms
Feast day
17 September; 13 May (General Roman Calendar, 1932–1969)
Venerated in
Catholic Church
Title as Saint
Confessor and Doctor of the Church
Beatified
13 May 1923 Rome, Kingdom of Italy by Pius XI
Canonized
29 June 1930 Rome, Vatican City by Pius XI
Patronage
Bellarmine University, Bellarmine Pre •
Three Cincinnati priests on leave for misconduct have been laicized
Three priests of the Cincinnati archdiocese who have been on administrative leave because of allegations of improper behavior involving minors have been dismissed from the clerical state by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
"I hope that this resolution will bring some measure of closure and healing to anyone harmed by these priests," Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati said in a statement issued Tuesday.
He said that with this decision, all the cases presented to the doctrinal congregation "have been dealt with and we have no more priests of the archdiocese on administrative leave."
The three former priests are Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Feldhaus and Ronald Cooper. Following a canonical process, the archdiocese said, they have been permanently removed from both the rights and the obligations of the priesthood.
It said the Vatican's doctrinal congregation affirmed a decision made by a panel of three judges in another diocese that the men be laicized. All three had