Second, at the bottom of the source page, there are links to two related articles - Priest's Miraculous Claims Draw Crowds and 'Stigmata Priest' cancelled by Church Fearing Crowds. In the first article linked above, the author quotes Father Perricone of the New York Archdiocese:
"We know of no reason why [he] should not be invited," said archdiocesan spokesman Joseph Zwilling without elaborating.The Rev. John Perricone, a philosophy professor at St. Francis College, disagreed.
"The first rule of Catholicism is to assume things of this kind to be fraudulent," Perricone said. "We always assume they're fraudulent until the church makes a definitive judgment."
Besides the fact that I know, respect, and trust Father Perricone my gut tells me the same thing. There's something very fishy about this guy.