September 16, 2005

Three Michigan priests removed

MICHIGAN
The Detroit News

By Kim Kozlowski / The Detroit News

The Vatican has removed three more local priests from ministry and prohibited them from wearing their clerical garb or presenting themselves as priests following allegations of child sexual abuse.

The priests are William Brennan, who last served at St. Sebastian in Dearborn Heights; Alfred Miller, last assigned to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Temperance; and Gary Bueche, who last served SS. John and Paul Parish in Washington.

The rulings come four months after the Vatican settled nine other cases, leaving 11 within the archdiocese still to be decided.

"We heard from everybody involved that they want some resolution," archdiocese spokesman Ned McGrath said Thursday. "Now we have it."

Posted by kshaw at September 16, 2005 07:52 AM