Business Management

After three strikes, pastor still is not out.
The Rev. William Killeen showed himself unfit to manage a parish before he was transferred by Cardinal Francis George to Flossmoor”s scandal-hit Infant Jesus of Prague Church, according to the man who sacrificed $200,000 of his own cash to help rectify one of Killeen”s earlier mistakes.

Former Crestwood Mayor Chester Stranczek - a former parishioner of Killeen”s at St. Christopher Church in Midlothian - was speaking Thursday after the SouthtownStar learned he was the anonymous donor who stepped in to save the day in 2006 after revelations that St. Christopher”s business manager Jim Nelson stole thousands in church funds under Killeen”s watch.

Stranczek said Killeen, who was moved to Infant Jesus of Prague while the Nelson scandal continued, ‘proved at St. Christopher that he could not manage money.’

‘It”s fair to say I”m not a fan of his,’ said Stranczek, who has retired to Florida and said he had hoped to keep details of his donation secret.