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Feb 28, 2012 | KQTV

David Lynn Wiederholt, 57, Conception Junction, MO

David Lynn Wiederholt, 57, Conception Junction, Missouri, died Monday, February 20, 2012, at Conception, Missouri near his farm.

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Fri Jun 24, 2011

Missourian

Former Catholic monk tells The Kansas City Star he abused teens

A former monk who is a central figure in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed against a Benedictine monastery told a Missouri newspaper he had inappropriate sexual contact with several members of a boys choir in the 1980s.

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Thu Jun 23, 2011

The Kansas City Star

Lawsuit alleges abuse of boys by monk at Conception Abbey

A Missouri man filed a lawsuit today against Conception Abbey in northwest Missouri, alleging a coverup of sexual abuse by a former monk who directed its boys’ choir in the late-1980s. The lawsuit, filed in Nodaway County Circuit Court, claims that Bede Parry, then a Benedictine monk, molested the plaintiff in 1987 during a summer camp at ...

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Mon Mar 07, 2011

Episcopal News Service

Martin S. Field consecrated as 8th bishop

The Rt. Rev. Martin S. Field, 54, was officially seated as eighth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri on March 6 before "a packed house" of about 400 at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City.

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Wed Sep 15, 2010

Southeast Missourian

Immaculate Conception supports SEMO Food Bank

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 User-submitted story by Southeast Missouri Food Bank The students of Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Jackson, Missouri collected 314 pounds of canned food items to help fight child hunger in Southeast Missouri on September 10th.

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