This is disgusting! What's worse is I went to college with one of these guys. I stood as godfather to another friend's son while this guy performed the Baptism.
Your disappointment is understandable. It is a shock to learn that someone in whom we placed trust and confidence has committed a grievous sin. That this priest has now been defrocked, in no way eradicates the validity of your godson's Baptism.
Consider the Apostles. One betrayed our Lord and the others fled when He was brought before the Sanhedrin. Your college friend will have to live with this for the rest of his life. He could certainly benefit from your prayers.
And you also sat next to a US Congressman who lied to you about hiring Joe Clark while this congressman was mayor. I wonder if the late Paterson Mayor/State Sen. Frank Graves' children know about this. When this congressman was mayor in 1990, Clark had already retired in 1989, LOL. Tell me, did he look you straight in the eye when he told you this?
Joe became principal way back in 1983 and retired in 1989 after 25 yrs. with the Paterson Bd. of Ed.
Published on March 14, 1989, Press of Atlantic City, The (NJ) NEWS BRIEFS 400 students walk out, back Clark PATERSON - About 400 Eastside High School students walked out of their building Monday and marched downtown to the Board of Education office in an apparent show of support for suspended school principal Joe Clark. The students left the school building around 9:30 a.m. and eventually took control of a meeting room in the Board of Education building, said Paterson Mayor Frank Graves. The students were escorted back to school by police about and hour later.