Not on the St Cloud list is Bishop James Rausch who was accused of sexually assaulting and passing around a teen with other priests. In 2002, the Boston Globe Spotlight team reported:

In his written account to the diocese in April, a copy of which was reviewed by the Globe, and in several interviews, O’Connor said that when he met Rausch in 1979, the bishop, who identified himself only as “Paul,” drove up beside him and offered him a ride. After getting into the car, O’Connor said, he initially resisted Rausch’s offer of $50 to allow Rausch to perform oral sex on him, but eventually agreed.

Throughout the summer and fall, a period when O’Connor became addicted to heroin, Rausch contacted him for additional exchanges of sex for money, O’Connor said. Once, he said, Rausch left him alone in his car while registering for a motel room. O’Connor, rifling Rauch’s glove compartment, discovered that “Paul” was really Bishop Rausch, and confronted him.

Earlier in his career Rausch was in St Cloud:

James S. Rausch

1956 St. Cloud bishop was Peter William Bartholome (1953-1968)	1957	St. Mary’s Cathedral	St. Cloud	MN	6/6	The cathedral had a school with 650 students.
1957	1967	Holy Angels	St. Cloud	MN	4/6, 5/6, 5/7, 5/8, 4/7, 3/7	Holy Angels had a school with 212-82 students.
1957	1967	Cathedral High School	St. Cloud	MN	teacher; spiritual director 1957-1962	Cathedral High School had 515-774 boys and 631-903 boys.
1967	1968	On Duty Outside the Diocese/ Casa Santa Maria	Rome	Italy		Rausch earned a PhD in pastoral psychology from the Gregorian University in Rome.
1968 Bartholome was succeeded by George Henry Speltz (1968-1987)	1972	On Duty Outside the Diocese/USCC	Washington	DC	Assistant General Secretary 1970-1972	Rausch was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of St. Cloud March 5, 1973, consecrated April 26, 1973.
1972	1977	NSCCB-USCC	Washington	DC	General Secretary	This was the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. Rausch succeeded Bishop Joseph Bernardin, and was known as a strong advocate of progressive issues.
1977 Phoenix bishop was James S. Rausch (1977-1981)	1981		Phoenix • Between 1995 and 2002 the Phoenix diocese was contacted twice regarding Rausch’s “sexual improprieties”.	AZ	Bishop	Rausch was appointed Bishop of Phoenix Jan. 25, 1977 and was installed March 22, 1977.

Of note Rausch was apointed auxiliary Bishop of St Cloud in March of 1973.

Considering the importance of these lists and the absence of all names there are a lot of questions to be answered.

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