Pendragon_6
03-21-2006, 04:01 PM
Glad to see these rogue's getting their due.
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Boston-area clerics accused of sexually abusing children
By Michael Levenson and Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff |
March 18, 2006
The Vatican has dismissed eight Boston-area clerics accused of sexually abusing children, including a monsignor who for two decades was the third-most-powerful official in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in addition to six other priests and a deacon, church officials said yesterday.
Dismissal from the ministry, which takes effect immediately, means that the men will no longer receive financial support from the archdiocese or be allowed to perform most of the public functions of a Catholic priest.
The eight had served for decades across Greater Boston, in schools, jails, hospitals, and churches. Among them was the former vice chancellor of the archdiocese, Monsignor Frederick J. Ryan, who was accused in 2002 of having repeatedly taken two students in the early 1980s from Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury to the chancery and molesting them. He is the highest-ranking priest to be dismissed since the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in 2002.
In Full
Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/18/8_clergymen_are_dismissed_by_the_vatican/)
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Boston-area clerics accused of sexually abusing children
By Michael Levenson and Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff |
March 18, 2006
The Vatican has dismissed eight Boston-area clerics accused of sexually abusing children, including a monsignor who for two decades was the third-most-powerful official in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in addition to six other priests and a deacon, church officials said yesterday.
Dismissal from the ministry, which takes effect immediately, means that the men will no longer receive financial support from the archdiocese or be allowed to perform most of the public functions of a Catholic priest.
The eight had served for decades across Greater Boston, in schools, jails, hospitals, and churches. Among them was the former vice chancellor of the archdiocese, Monsignor Frederick J. Ryan, who was accused in 2002 of having repeatedly taken two students in the early 1980s from Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury to the chancery and molesting them. He is the highest-ranking priest to be dismissed since the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in 2002.
In Full
Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/03/18/8_clergymen_are_dismissed_by_the_vatican/)