To bboop and all responders: I've known Fr. Madden for many years. His decision to leave was agonizing. The episode in Darien was the cap on his decision, not a flight of fancy. The Diocese of Bridgeport has many, many problems, and they are losing many good priests who view their vocation AS a vocation, not as a career where they climb the corporate ladder. Fr. Madden is not the first, and he won't be the last, unfortunately.
You've known him? Well, tell him we're behind him all the way. And the Lord, of course, will be pleased. But not to leave the church -- we need good men like him.