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\u2026that commenced during the Long Lent of 2002. There has been a lot of change and improvement, but as cases like Bp Finn and, ahem, this guy <\/a>demonstrate we have not crossed the finish line.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m having trouble tracking the timeline on the priest and when he stopped serving. Can somebody make sense of it for me? My main question is, \u201cWas this guy still serving after the reports of him cross-dressing and all the rest of it in the rectory?\u201d Or did the diocese respond quickly once they knew there was a problem? If the former, then, oh well, priests fall and that happens. If the latter, then the diocese of Bridgeport seems not to have learned a damn thing.<\/p>\n

I did find the oblique reference to his love of Broadway shows and \u201cshow tunes\u201d amusing. The sanctity of the Gay Estate must be preserved above all things. It\u2019s one thing to say the man brought the priesthood into disgrace. It\u2019s quite another to suggest that the homosexual life teems with pathologies (which, you know, it does).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"