Father Michael Krol
Diocese of Pueblo
Ordained: 1945
Died: 1996
Assigned as follows:
- 1946-1949: Unknown
- 1950-1951: St. Francis Xavier (Enid, OK)
- 1952-1953: Sacred Heart (Sayre, OK)
- 1954-1960: Unknown
- 1961: St. Finbar’s (Brooklyn, NY)
- 1962: St. Francis de Sales (Lamar, CO)
- 1963-1964: Our Lady of Perpetual Help (New London, CT)
- 1965-1969: Unknown
- 1970-1971: St. Thomas (Hamilton, TX)
- 1972-1973: St. Mary’s (San Saba, TX)
- 1974-1976: St. Mary’s (Bremond, TX)
- 1977-1990 Guardian Angels (Wallis, TX)
- 1991: Unknown
- 1992-1994: Retired; St. Anthony’s (Runge, TX)
- 1992-1996: Retired (Brownsville, TX)
Summary of Sexual Abuse Allegations against Fr. Michael Krol:
Fr. Michael Krol was ordained a priest in 1945, and served in multiple parishes in the Diocese of Pueblo. According to media reports, in October 2019, the Colorado Attorney General released a detailed report of a special investigation into the handling of child sexual abuse allegations by Colorado’s three Catholic dioceses. For the first time, Fr. Michael Krol was publicly identified as a priest with multiple documented reports of sexual abuse.
Krol was an extern priest accepted into the Diocese of Pueblo in 1961 after being accused of abusing a minor boy in the Diocese of Brooklyn (New York). In February 1962, Krol was accused of abusing a boy in the Diocese of Pueblo. His faculties were revoked for a few hours, and then the Diocese of Pueblo reinstated them. This was four months before he abused Victim #1.
According to the documents reviewed by the investigators, Krol was the subject of three documented reports of sexual abuse.
Victim #1 was sexually abused as a 15 year old at St. Francis de Sales in Lamar. He said that he went out on a Saturday night and sexually abused him. The Victim’s father reported the abuse to the Bishop immediately, and Krol left town immediately.
Victim #2 said that Krol “attempted” to sexually abuse him on one occasion in the spring of 1962. At the time, he was a 15 year old boy who knew Krol from St. Francis de Sales, much like Victim #1. The abuse was reported to the Diocese at the same time as the abuse of Victim #1 in 1962.
Victim #3 was sexually abused in the Spring of 1962 when Krol brought him to a movie. He too was 15 years old. His abuse was also reported to the Diocese of Pueblo in June 1962.
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