Thanks for the update. I have faith all this will dissolve into nothing. He’s just a high profile target. He needs to learn that he can never be alone with anyone. Somebody has to have his six.
Maybe he wasn't. If the accusation is false, the accuser(s) need not have had private time with him.
The headline is misleading: if the investigation is being conducted by priests from outside the diocese, and not affiliated with SOLT, that isn't really "internal." Presumably the writer meant an investigation by the church, rather than by the police, but since fornication isn't a crime, there's no possible police involvement.