TEXAS
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
By Darren Barbee
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Part 2
Delaney's decision
"In view of the past, I understand the current risks involved and hereby pledge my financial assets towards any settlement the diocese may have to make on my behalf."
-- June 1988 letter from Teczar, asking Delaney for permission to work in the Fort Worth diocese.
Should he take the priest?
Delaney needed clergy in the summer of 1988. But, in an unusual step, the Diocese of Worcester required him to take full legal responsibility for Teczar -- in writing -- three years before he was officially a part of the Fort Worth Diocese.
Delaney was concerned that Teczar had been suspended and that other bishops had rejected him, he later said in a deposition.
Most of the information Delaney said he received was related to the Maciorowski matter: reports from the House of Affirmation, interviews with Teczar's therapist, a letter from the Worcester Diocese and conversations with Teczar himself.