Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Some Updated Articles on Priest from Yakima

These are updates to this post, Priest once under suspicion gets new post in St Louis, which appear to support a private comment that not all of the facts where known.
This Yakima Herald Republic story questions whether the St Louis Archdiocese is aware of all of the details of this matter:

Even though the incident happened more than three years ago, emotions churned again recently when news broke that the priest is working in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, where he is an associate pastor in a parish with an elementary school.

Yakima members of a Catholic group advocating reforms in the church, Voice of the Faithful, are troubled over the priest's assignment.

"That tells me there's a good possibility that St. Louis doesn't know the whole history of (the priest's) imprudent behavior," said Robert Fontana, VOTF coordinator.

When asked what documentation Yakima's diocese sent to St. Louis about the priest, Monsignor Ron Metha, diocese chief of staff, said he didn't know because he wasn't involved in the process.

While I, too, am loathe to associate in any way with VOTF, it appears that there's something to this story.

And then we have the testimony of the man who found photos of nude boys on the computer:

Following is testimony given in December 2005 to the Catholic Diocese of Yakima Lay Advisory Board by the person who discovered photographs of nude boys on a priest's computer in 2003. Names of people not previously mentioned in articles about the incident have been removed. Also, some changes have been made for the sake of brevity.

This, too, demands a full reading. If the testimony and the facts are true, then there are many questions, it seems, remaining unanswered.

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