Wait a second! Fr. Haley was accused of sexual offenses BEFORE he blabbed to the press about other priests? He's not a whistle-blower, he's trying to take others down with him. Grrrr! I had just been laughing "Go, Jimmy, go" when I heard Ratzinger was going to review the case.
O well, it's still good news that the trial will force Rat-zinger to rule on the issues brought forth.
"Bishop Loverde has lodged several charges against the priest for sexual misconduct in a case that began in the fall of 2001. He ordered Father Haley silenced and removed him from parish ministry.
The priest denied the sexual-misconduct charges, then revealed in a July 24, 2002, deposition filed in Arlington County Circuit Court a lengthy account of adultery and homosexual affairs among certain priests in the Northern Virginia diocese."
This is certainly relevant information which previous postings about this man failed to mention.