CHICAGO — For the second time in less than two years, the Rev. Michael Pfleger is stepping away from his popular ministry while under investigation for a decades-old sexual abuse allegation, the Archdiocese of Chicago confirmed Saturday.
In the latest allegation, a man in his late 40s has filed a claim with the archdiocese alleging the long-tenured activist South Side priest sexually abused him at St. Sabina Church in the late 1980s.
The man’s attorney, Eugene Hollander, said his client was a member of the acclaimed Soul Children of Chicago choir when the alleged incidents occurred on two separate occasions in the church rectory. The choir rehearsed at St. Sabina once or twice a week, the attorney said.
