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(1) Fr. Fay should get what's coming to him.

(2) One priest hiring a PI to investigate another priest he is having a personal dispute with is a bad idea, and Fr. Madden was correctly disciplined for doing that.

(3) I question the seriousness of Fr. Madden's vocation and the seriousness of his Christian profession if he is deciding to abandon his parishioners because of a financial dispute.

"Shepherds" like that we don't need.

You may be unaware of a few facts. Fr. Madden went to the diocese first and did not get any support or action. Bishop Lori admits that he cut Fr. Fey slack because he was having health problems. Fr. Madden only went outside the "chain of command" after it failed him and his parishoners. Would you have the same opinion of a priest who took action on his own if the concern had been child molestation?

I question the seriousness of Fr. Madden's vocation and the seriousness of his Christian profession if he is deciding to abandon his parishioners because of a financial dispute.

My thought, as well. Why not ask to be incardinated to another diocese?

I question the seriousness of the Catholic church to want evil exposed.

And I praise Father Madden for being a good shephard. Don't bow down to evil - either fight it and/or walk away from it.

I am sorry wideawake but you and many of the posters here on the forum don't know Father Madden or the circumstances and persecution that he and other good Priests face in this Diocese. Fay is a creation of Cardinal Egan who was Lori's predecessor. Concerned people including Father Madden reported Fay's malfeasance repeatedly over the past 15 years. Lori failed to move or even respond to this issue until Madden confronted him but he left Fay as pastor after his first interview with him after summoning he back from the arms of his “Wedding Planner” close friend.

He was forced out only after the private investigator hired who was hired by the Book Keeper and who Father Madden only offered to assist her pay for him, went public.

Fay is flamboyantly and obviously a homosexual and living above his means for 15 years and although he was the pastor of a parish with one of the most affluent congregation in Connecticut he failed to pay the dioceses its Diocesan allotment for over 3 years without examination.

Lori and his lavender mafia associates is an evil liar and fraud.

Read Father Madden’s work at http://www.faithfront.org/archive.htm and judge him more fairly and accurately.

Rufus Choate.