I just realized that I’ve walked past that church many times...it’s near the Javits Center.
It’s a beautiful church. But they put him there to punish him for having been successful in building two other parishes into hotbeds of orthodoxy (as well as having restored them from their 70s wreckovations ). St Michael’s was a marginal parish on its way to closing ...but guess what, he did the same thing there, created a thriving conservative parish and beautified the church.
I have met him a few times and I find these claims very hard to believe, if only because it’s hard to believe that he would do something as foolish as that, let alone as immoral. He knows the diocesan authorities have been out to get him since day one (he’s a convert from Anglicanism).
Also, I don’t see why this shocked young woman would go running off to something called “Black Ops Private Investigators” rather than going to the police. How did she even find this company?
That said, anything is possible, and I certainly hope it’s not true.