ALABAMA
Birmingham News
Thursday, August 11, 2005
GREG GARRISON
News staff writer
An Alabama-based worldwide Catholic television network has no plans to drop a program hosted by a New York priest who has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a married woman.
Monsignor Eugene V. Clark, the pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, has a program on Irondale-based EWTN called "Relationships."
Clark, 79, has been having an affair with his longtime personal secretary, Laura DeFilippo, 46, according to her husband, Philip DeFilippo. Stories in several New York newspapers have carried accounts of DeFilippo's accusations in his divorce filing.