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  • POPE ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF PHOENIX BISHOP CHARGED WITH LEAVING SCENE OF FATAL ACCIDENT

    06/18/2003 9:36:12 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 8 replies · 193+ views
    AP Breaking News ^ | 18 June 2003 | Jacques Billeaud
    PHOENIX (AP) - Bishop Thomas O'Brien, who has admitted he concealed sex abuse allegations against priests and now has been charged in a fatal hit-and-run accident, resigned Wednesday. The Vatican appointed Santa Fe, N.M., Archbishop Michael Sheehan as interim administrator of the diocese. As apostolic administrator, Sheehan has been granted full authority over the Diocese of Phoenix until the Vatican appoints a new bishop, the Santa Fe archdiocese said. He also will remain archbishop of New Mexico's largest diocese. In a two-line announcement Wednesday, the Vatican said Pope John Paul II accepted O'Brien's resignation as the spiritual leader of Arizona's...