Posted on 06/20/2002 12:52:59 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:06:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A gay Catholic priest looted his working-class Queens parish by playing "sugar daddy" to an 18-year-old go-go dancer who lived with him in a church rectory, a shocking lawsuit charged yesterday.
Among other allegations, the suit says the Rev. John Thompson looted $14,000 from a candy drive - and bragged he was untouchable because "he could bring down half the [Brooklyn] diocese with what he knew" about other gay priests.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Well, go to it! No time like the present.
Saying the problem in the Church is not the hierarchy and the Poofter Priests is beginning to feel like saying Islam is a religion of peace.After amending the statemnt to refer to the "American branch of the Church" rather then the Church I would agreee with you. The problem is and has long been the American Bishops and their tolerance of gay priests. Just like the problem has long been that Islam is anything but a peaceful religion.
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