Vatican Defrocks Four Priests -Boston Archdiocese

emad

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Sat Feb-12-05 10:22 AM
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Vatican Defrocks Four Priests -Boston Archdiocese

Reuters

BOSTON (Reuters) - Four Massachusetts priests accused of sexually abusing children have been defrocked by the Vatican, the Archdiocese of Boston said in a statement released on Friday.

"The Holy See has determined that Robert Fay, Kelvin Iguabita, Bernard Lane and Robert Ward are no longer in the clerical state," the statement said.

The men will be forbidden from functioning as priests, and they will not receive any financial support from the archdiocese, the statement said.

Iguabita is serving a 12 to 14 years in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7608206

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Sat Feb-12-05 10:31 AM
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1. Five hundred years of catholicism before celibacy, was imposed..

Edited on Sat Feb-12-05 10:35 AM by orpupilofnature57

Within one hundred years after,perverse behavior"rape,molestations",escalated.If defrocking had been a church ritual through the years Roman catholics would have been especially blessed.

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