NEW YORK
New York Newsday
BY CAROL EISENBERG
STAFF WRITER
September 3, 2005
Two Roman Catholic priests and a deacon who had helped oversee elementary education for the New York archdiocese have been defrocked in connection with allegations that they sexually abused minors.
All three worked in northern counties of the archdiocese.
Defrocking a cleric is the most severe penalty the Roman Catholic Church can impose. It means that he can no longer act as a priest and foregoes all pension and financial support from the church.
The latest announcement, in this week's Catholic New York, brings to nine the number of New York priests who have been permanently removed from the priesthood under the church's zero tolerance policy for sexual abuse.