{"id":6389,"date":"2006-08-22T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T00:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/chicago-problemsand-elsewhere.html"},"modified":"2006-08-22T00:09:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T00:09:21","slug":"chicago-problemsand-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/chicago-problemsand-elsewhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Chicago problems…and elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rather strange story from Chicago: two priests removed from a parish.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has asked two priests to leave a northwest suburban parish while authorities investigate the allegations of a 26-year-old Palatine man who said he was sexually assaulted this month in the priests’ home.<\/p>\n

Rev. Juan Sanchez-Espinoza, 48, who has lived in the priests’ residence of the Mision San Juan Diego in Palatine since June, was placed on administrative leave Aug. 10, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese said Monday. Officials have asked him to move.<\/p>\n

A week later, Rev. Moises Marin, 45, the parish’s pastor, who shares the town home with Sanchez-Espinoza, was also asked to leave. Church officials discovered that he was present during the alleged incident, said Susan Burritt, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More details, including an interview with the accuser, in the Sun-Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Archdiocese has a statement on its website.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cincinnati pastor removed while Archdiocese investigates 30-year old accusations<\/a><\/p>\n

LIttle Rock diocese removes pastor for "misconduct."<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, the Jacksonvillle paper finally catches up with the excommunication of the fairly freshly ordained priest who’s left and hung his sign up at RentAPriest:<\/a><\/p>\n

The article doesn’t answer the question that comes to the top of any informed person’s mind which is why excommunication and not simply suspension? I suppose because he’s refusing to be laicized, but I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

Update: A pastor of two parishes in the Diocese of Memphis resigns after a lawsuit is filed regarding sexual abuse allegations dating back to the 80’s when he was working in a Catholic high school.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

People: these are stories all from the last couple of days<\/em>. I didn’t reach back any further than that. I wasn’t even reaching. For some reason, they just kept coming….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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