"St. Paul priest's suspected child porn never reported to police"

Emily Gurnon twincities.com When two employees at St. Mary's church in downtown St. Paul found what they believed was child pornography in the Rev. Donald J. Dummer's living quarters in 1997, they brought the material to an archdiocese official. Over the next five years, the circle of church leaders made aware of the material grew. It included then-Vicar General Kevin McDonough, then-Archbishop Harry Flynn and the Rev. Joseph Hitpas, Dummer's superior in the local office of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the order to which he belonged. It even reached Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, the apostolic nuncio in Washington, D.C. -- the Vatican's ambassador to the United States. But the potentially criminal material never was turned over to law enforcement. to read more: twincities.com