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I am afraid that there is bad news about Father Altier -- it is true whatever has been posted on some Blog Spots.

But, it gets even worse. It seems that Father Altier is being sent to a "Nursing Home" in Hastings, Minnesota in June.

This is the part I cannot undertand. Is he being sent to this Nursing Home for some Psychiatric Treatment or as a Chaplain to this nursing Home.

Here is an email I have just received from a Staunch Catholic Couple who are Parishioners of Saint Agnes.

From:FRIEND IN MINNEAPOLIS

Subject:Re: Re : Do you Guys know anything about this ?

Date:Thu, 11 May 2006 18:19:46 IST

Dear -----

It appears true.We learned about it yesterday.

It is legal for an Archbishop to reassign any ordinary priest in his diocese.Because their faculties are not being suspended (which would require canonical
legal action), there is nothing illegal.

It does suck however.We will be getting two new priests, Fr. Udel, former interim rector of St. Paul's Seminary and Fr. Kasel, who grew up at St. Agnes and found his vocation there.

Father Welzbacher may have requested the transfer, as his health has deteriorated of late(he is 77 or 78 as well).

Pray for Fr. Altier, he will need strength to bear all this, and pray for St. Agnes.

Yours in Christ,
FRIEND IN MINNEAPOLIS

MESSAGE TO ALL:

The contents of this message are authentic except that I have removed my name and the sender's name. He had also addressed me by my first name and ended the email with his name so I had to remove that too.

I have also deleted our email addresses as this is a Public Forum and I did not want to reveal our identities.

By Freep Mail i would have no reservations about revealing our identities.