{"id":786906,"date":"2026-05-10T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786906\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:38:15","slug":"priest-working-in-little-italy-parish-accused-of-inappropriate-behavior-toward-children-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786906\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest working in Little Italy parish accused of &#8216;inappropriate&#8217; behavior toward children, women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A priest working in a Little Italy parish was accused of \u201cimproper and inappropriate\u201d behavior toward children and women, according to the Archdiocese of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Jose Molina, who was working as a temporary minister at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, allegedly engaged in \u201cimproper and inappropriate conversations and communications with minors and adult women,\u201d according to a letter Cardinal Blase Cupich sent Saturday to the St. Francis of Assisi Parish community.<\/p>\n<p>Molina started working at the Chicago parish in August 2025. Cupich has stripped him of his abilities to minister in the Archdiocese of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Molina, a priest with the Institute of the Incarnate Word religious order, will return to that order, Cupich said. The archdiocese will cooperate with the order\u2019s investigation, the letter reads. <\/p>\n<p>The archdiocese has reported the allegations to civil authorities and the victims were offered support services, Cupich said. <\/p>\n<p>Molina and Institute of the Incarnate Word could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A priest working in a Little Italy parish was accused of \u201cimproper and inappropriate\u201d behavior toward children and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":542244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-786906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116551267687442518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}