NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By RICH SCHAPIRO and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
As news of a scandalous resignation circulated about St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, Msgr. Eugene Clark's presence still loomed large.
Visitors entering the famed cathedral saw that Clark's name still graced two welcome boards in the foyer - a visceral reminder of the latest scandal to rock the Catholic Church.
"Before you cast stones you better be damn sure you're doing the right thing," parishioner Dorothy Clune, 50, of the Bronx, said of the silver-haired Clark, who has railed against the immorality of "liberal America."
But visitors to the landmark church suggested the litany of libido-driven scandals in the Catholic Church would end if priests were given the green light to have sex and marry.
"I think something's going to have to change and until that time I think this nonsense is going to keep happening," said Clune.