# Guardian Angels *Hastings, Minnesota, assignment named in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis clergy disclosures* Guardian Angels is an organization in [[Hastings]], [[Minnesota]], in Dakota County. The record carries it in one role. It is the place of assignment of Rev. [[Clarence Vavra]], who is identified as its associate pastor. Vavra is named in the [[Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis]]'s published list of clergy against whom there is a substantiated claim of abusing a minor.[^1] The list is published and maintained by the archdiocese. The standard under which a claim is counted as substantiated is also the archdiocese's.[^1] The record does not establish a founding date for Guardian Angels in Hastings. It contains no filing, finding or statement issued by Guardian Angels.[^1] ## Who Rev. Clarence Vavra is identified as associate pastor at Guardian Angels in Hastings. He appears among the individuals on the archdiocese's list who were assigned in Dakota County.[^1] ## Where Guardian Angels is in Hastings. The archdiocese's disclosure, as recorded, groups the Hastings assignment with Dakota County.[^1] ## How many The archdiocese's standing list names 72 individuals against whom there is a substantiated claim of abusing a minor. That figure is as recorded in the project's Dakota County source matrix dated 2 September 2026.[^1] The archdiocese's page carries no date in the record, so the count is stated as of the matrix date.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The listing is carried as at-issue item AI-Dakota-099. The item classes the archdiocese's disclosure as an institutional self-publication, meaning a record whose contents and substantiation standard are set by the institution it concerns.[^1] The item pairs the listing with a White House presidential action as its anchor document. That action is *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025).[^2] The record does not establish any connection between that presidential action and Guardian Angels or the archdiocese beyond the item's pairing.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, *Clergy disclosures* (undated; 72 names as recorded 2 September 2026) — standing list of individuals against whom there is a substantiated claim of abusing a minor; the record identifies Rev. Clarence Vavra as associate pastor at Guardian Angels in Hastings, among those assigned in Dakota County. https://www.archspm.org/clergy-disclosures/ [^2]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — presidential action used as the anchor document of at-issue item AI-Dakota-099. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/