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	Priest Defrocked after Sexual Assault Conviction WPRI [Boston MA] January 26, 2007 http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5994653&nav=F2DO Boston a Roman Catholic priest convicted of raping a teenage boy has been defrocked by the Vatican. The Boston archdiocese says Paul Hurley can no longer perform public ministry, except for offering absolution to the dying. He also won't receive any financial support from the archdiocese. Hurley was convicted last year of repeatedly raping a 15-year-old boy in 1987 and 1988 in the rectory of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Cambridge, where the priest was assigned. The Sandwich resident was sentenced to four years in prison. Church law requires that priests be permanently removed from the ministry if an act of sexual abuse of a minor is admitted or proven through a church investigation.
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