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Priest stole $1m from church for male escorts....
MailOnline ^ | 28th April 2011

Posted on 04/29/2011 4:06:03 PM PDT by Gamecock

Full title: Priest stole $1m from church for male escorts.... and designer clothes… but won't have to pay it back and could serve again

A Catholic priest who stole more than $1 million in church money and spent it on male escorts, Armani clothes and nights out at gay bars has been jailed for three years.

But the priest from Connecticut could be allowed to continue serving as a priest after he has served his sentence, according to his former church.

Father Kevin Gray, 65, the former pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish, Waterbury, was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. He had entered a plea of no contest.

He had used the money to pay for a lavish lifestyle, which included owning a secret flat in New York, which he shared with a man who he paid to go to Harvard University.

Prosecutors said Gray will not have to pay back the money because the Diocese of Hartford did not ask for restitution.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Gamecock
In a statement, the diocese said

The diocese of Hartford can talk? Who knew?

But seriously, I would want to know what kind of "statement" this was, and who wrote it. It seems very unlikely to me.

41 posted on 04/29/2011 5:27:19 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: RnMomof7

The National “catholic” Reporter is a “catholic” leftist Soros funded “news” outlet.

Why are you promoting it as a legitimate source on FR? It’s like posting moveon, dailykos or media matters as a source.

I see you and your groupies causing division all over the FR Religious Forum. I also see you aiding and abetting the Marxist-Islamist agenda.

Who are you?


42 posted on 04/29/2011 5:29:49 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: keat

Just for balance? A case from 2006? Try again.


43 posted on 04/29/2011 5:33:28 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Gamecock

I assume the escorts were not 8-12 year old alter boys and consider this the new counter reformation.


44 posted on 04/29/2011 5:35:19 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: RnMomof7

“Pathetic attempt to justify sodomizing little altar boys”

I posted this a couple of days ago and didn’t see you posting on the thread -

Where is the Outrage? (protestant pedophiles)
stop baptist predators ^ | 01-01-2011 | staff
Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:27:57 AM by bronxville
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2709296/posts

Just because Catholics don’t post every single episode of Protestant abuse, theft, prostitute allegations etc., doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Both sides, including Jewish conservatives and normal atheists/agnostics, know the left have a divisive agenda and part of it is to keep us fighting among each other. So, why do you and your groupie friends insist on stirring the pot?

Who are you? I know there are people from the Soros funded dailykos, moveon, mediamatters sites who get paid for this crap-stirring. Are you from that arena or the Algore affiliated Westboro group?


45 posted on 04/29/2011 5:43:03 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: Future Snake Eater

“Just for balance? A case from 2006? Try again.”

I just googled and found plenty of recent Pastor abuses, theft, prostitutes etc., but who does that help?

What benefit do any of you gain from posting this stuff especially on a religious forum?


46 posted on 04/29/2011 5:47:06 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: Sacajaweau

If they leave, it isn’t because of him.


47 posted on 04/29/2011 5:51:47 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Copts, Nazis, Franks and Beans - what a public school education puts in your head.)
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To: nkycincinnatikid

“I assume the escorts were not 8-12 year old alter boys and consider this the new counter reformation.”

Read the link on post #45. Your sly remarks aren’t going to work anymore.

Please feel free to question any of the Protestant child abuse cases posted therein (I’ve checked them all and then some)...perhaps you can even come up with solutions because it continues to happen...that’s if you really do care about abuse. The CC has a terrific program in place for a decade which is used by many other institutions. You might suggest it to whomever you affiliate with...if it’s the Marxists on dailykos etc they certainly need it as their unionized teachers/DoE numbers are through the roof.


48 posted on 04/29/2011 5:53:00 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: bronxville

Some people regularly make fools of themselves, they just can’t help it and some people are virulent fools.


49 posted on 04/29/2011 5:54:45 PM PDT by tiki
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To: bronxville; keat

I don’t know. Ask keat. He’s the one “balancing” things.


50 posted on 04/29/2011 5:57:10 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Clemenza

“Without immigration, you would be declining. Per pew, a third of those who are raised Catholic leave the faith.”

I’d rather decline than have huge numbers consisting of hordes of lefties.

Could you please give me the link? I used to work at QA/PI hence the interest.


51 posted on 04/29/2011 6:02:40 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: Teflonic
I’m starting to wonder whether the gay movement purposefully infiltrated the church in order to destroy it from within.
They did. It was a Gramscian assault. Pretty well documented.
52 posted on 04/29/2011 6:07:03 PM PDT by narses ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." Chesterton)
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To: bronxville; RnMomof7
Why are you promoting it as a legitimate source on FR? It’s like posting moveon, dailykos or media matters as a source.
Why? Why ask why? Anti-Catholic bigotry is rampant, trash like this is simply an attack against the Faith.
53 posted on 04/29/2011 6:08:40 PM PDT by narses ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." Chesterton)
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To: verga

Well, that makes it all right then. As long as it’s even amongst the different denominations. Reminds me of “but momma, he did it too”.


54 posted on 04/29/2011 6:31:32 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: ViLaLuz; Teflonic
“I’m starting to wonder whether the gay movement purposefully infiltrated the church in order to destroy it from within.”

Yes.

So, are you then admitting that the "gates of Hell" have prevailed against the Catholic Church?

55 posted on 04/29/2011 6:35:02 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: bronxville; Teflonic; Gamecock
Yes. That’s what the recent history from the sixties tell us. Hillary - her Methodist Pastor - Alinskey. It happened to ALL Churches, in fact, ALL institutions. To keep posting stuff like this is not taking the log out of their own eye but also defaming the Catholic Church which only aids and abets the Marxist/Islamist movement. I could post all day about Protestant Pastors but for what reason? They’re already caught and will be punished which is the more important.

I think it's not a matter of log vs. speck but rather the Roman Catholic Church is the only church that claims to be the one, only, true church Christ established on earth. Therefore, the many, many vile incidents that are reported against the Catholic Church - where most are valid and provable and where there has been so much cover up by those in the upper echelons and transferring of predators continues - should be reported.

I have never heard of the Southern Baptist church making claims that no one can be saved unless they join the SBC, have you? Neither have the Presbyterians or the Methodists or the Episcopalians, etc. What can you expect when you place a human institution, run by fallible humans, as the only way to Heaven?

Rather, Jesus set up a body of believers - a spiritual and universal body - built around the truth of the gospel that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior of mankind and we are saved by the grace of God through faith in the sacrifice Jesus made for us. All those who come to Christ by faith are born again into the family of God and become a member of this spiritual body. It encompasses ALL true believers and no one denomination can claim exclusivity of the body. Sorry, you cannot. That is why we can know that the "gates of Hell" cannot - and will not - prevail against this body of Christ.

56 posted on 04/29/2011 6:51:53 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: rjsclassics
Oh, and of course all those child molestations and all the cover ups that followed

Yeah becasue that never happens in Protestant churches (See post #7) or even in public schools or in the homes of Homeschoolsers.

Oh wait it happens at a higher number and rate in all of those.

57 posted on 04/29/2011 7:02:31 PM PDT by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: Gamecock
Unlike so many Catholic Priests, this guy has been charged. Not moved to another diocese to rape other boys and girls
58 posted on 04/29/2011 7:04:32 PM PDT by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: svcw

I don’t get the sentence of only 3 years.


59 posted on 04/29/2011 7:04:57 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: Gamecock

And Catholics whine about the insurance companies pay outs to the victims of Catholic priests abuse as if it’s costing the Catholic church all that money instead of the insurance companies.

It’s a wonder they can even get insurance any more, they’re so high risk.


60 posted on 04/29/2011 7:05:33 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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