BROOMALL (PA)
News of Delaware County
By Amy A. Winnemore and Dan Russo, STAFF WRITERS 09/29/2005
BROOMALL - At St. Pius X Church in Broomall, Rev. Paul Castellani's homily Sunday, like many across the Philadelphia Archdiocese, addressed the recent grand jury report on sex abuse in the church.
Parishioners listened quietly, as the priest began by solemnly acknowledging that he, like all others humans, sins. He then spoke about the great tragedy of the sins committed by those exposed in the report and apologized to abuse victims. He closed by criticizing the institutional and societal conditions that perpetuate such wrongdoing.
Tess Colaiezzi, a member of St. Anastasia in Newtown Square, said she was surprised to hear that a former priest at her parish, Rev. John H. Mulholland, 66, was named in the report, and was cited for abusing a boy while assigned there.
"I think our kids were in CCD when he was in our parish," said Colaiezzi. "It just makes me mad," she says. "They should have been arrested."