CONNECTICUT
New York Daily News
Edward Cardinal Egan said yesterday he will testify in a sex-abuse lawsuit against a former Connecticut priest who once worked for him.
"I will be there and I will be on time," Egan told reporters, after delivering gifts to emotionally disturbed children in the Bronx.
Egan said he learned this week that he had been subpoenaed in the suit, brought by a Bridgeport man who says he was molested while serving as an altar boy in 1991 and 1992.
Egan headed the Diocese of Bridgeport before becoming the archbishop of New York in 2000.
Egan also offered a brief defense of accused priest John Castaldo.
"The young man who is being accused of something never did anything out of line during my time there," Egan said.
Posted by kshaw at December 23, 2004 10:57 AM