That is givng him way too much benefit of the doubt. If a Priest who has taken vows has violated those vows, and with other men (in my mind worse exponentially for a priest).......and he has been accused of child molestation, I find it hard to believe you are givinghim the benefit of the doubt yet again. This is what pedophiles do - they prey on innocent thinking people, being sociopathic is inherent to being a pedophile.
He insisted he was celibate and after that made the papers, people who knew him outside the Church (he was on a 20 yr sabbatical) called the newspaper and said "hey wait a minute, he was living with a guy when we knew him" - now Spagnolia is gone to parts unknown and I don't think anyone would believe him about anything.