Posted on 09/10/2018 7:03:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
An Illinois priest accused of patronizing a male prostitute in the 1990s and misappropriating $40,000 from a parish in 2005 has now been removed from ministry for “immoral activity” that could involve child pornography, and allegedly misspending up to $29,000 at two parishes he oversaw in the Diocese of Springfield.
The Rev. Barry J. Harmon, 55, was removed from ministry and will apply for laicization, Springfield Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki wrote in a Sept. 5 email to diocesan priests. Harmon has agreed to make restitution for the misappropriated funds, Paprocki said. Harmon was initially placed on medical leave Oct. 30, 2017 from his role as pastor of Mother of Dolors Catholic Church in Vandalia and St. Joseph Catholic Church in Ramsey, Ill.
During the medical leave, the diocese discovered financial irregularities at the parishes, and “immoral activity inconsistent with the life of a priest,” Paprocki wrote. He did not offer details. “We have found nothing to indicate that there was inappropriate activity with minors,” Paprocki wrote. Diocesan spokeswoman Marlene Mulford would not elaborate on the “immoral activity,” but she said the diocese “is sure this does not involve minors.”
However, Fayette County State’s Attorney Joshua Morrison on Saturday said he understood the police investigation involved “potential child pornography and the priest.” Morrison said he was unaware of a financial aspect to the case. He asked those with knowledge of the funds misappropriation to contact his office for investigation.
An informant who contacted the activist group Roman Catholic Faithful Inc. said the situation involves much more than appears on the surface.
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It’s not the sex, it’s the money. Or, in the past it would have seemed that way.
Most dioceses assess parishes an average of 13% of their collection revenues. Bishops get angry if you’re embezzling because they’re losing their cut.
But they're not sodomites. Homosexuality has nothing to do with it.
Nothing to see here ... move along ...
One thing that bugs me about embezzlement is, where do get jobs where that much cash is available to the light-fingered. I'm pissed.
Thanks, I didn’t know the split percentage, or franchise fee.
Thanks, I didn’t know the split percentage, or franchise fee.
So tired of hearing about homo priests. If the Catholic church doesn’t police its own; the government will have to get involved due to all the pedophilia.
I’m to the point now that if someone is a homosexual they are likely a pedophile as well.
To be more precise I’d say likely a pederast
I’ve known many homosexual men
Most indeed liked mid to late teens boys
To turn out or deflower so to speak
Which coincidentally is how most of them came to that lifestyle as well
That’s just the facts as I’ve heard it recounted to me
There is town near Nashville replete with a few dozen rich cloaked homosexual men who carried on this way for decades
And it involves a few notable people .....
They turned out many young men in a certain basement dungeon off Main Street in a very nice stucco italianate sprawling home
Doctors and lawyers and interior decorators and mail box money rich
On the down low the southern way
My own priest who did my orientation. When I became godfather in Beaumont Texas was a prolific buggerer
I noted it to to my Goddaughter’s mama that i suspected he was cake
She wasn’t happy with me
He of course got caught and shuffled around and that diocese paid out a lot of money
No shortage of Catholics in the coonass corner of Texas
It just is what is you know...
Homosexuality to me involves malignant narcissism more often than not
so....they were stupid enough to put him in the position to steal a five-digit amount TWICE??
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