PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
By RAMONA SMITH
smithra@phillynews.com
Two of the priests singled out in last week's grand jury report on sex abuse of children by area clergy will no longer be saying Mass in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Amid furor over the extent of the depravity and accusations that Catholic officials had looked the other way, Cardinal Justin Rigali has removed from their jobs the only two active clergy among those named in the grand jury probe.
Until Sunday, the Rev. Robert L. Brennan, alleged to have had "inappropriate contact" with more than 20 boys, and Rev. John H. Mulholland, subject of reports involving sado-masochism and human excrement, were assigned as chaplains at homes for the sick or elderly.
But in a statement yesterday, the archdiocese noted the two "have been the focus of extraordinary attention."