Dominican Today [Dominican Republic]
March 8, 2007
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=23002
Santo Domingo. — After several months since of the controversial priest Christopher Harley left the Dominican Republic, the San Pedro diocese bishop Francisco Ozoria, revealed in a letter by the official Catholic Pastoral Family magazine, that the reason for removing the Spanish-born missionary from that diocese was because he committed serious acts which he described as "very disloyal and anti-eccleastical" and which were not in harmony with the Pastoral Plan.
In a letter, Ozoria uses strong statements to describe the actions committed by Hartley, but doesn't detail them.
The San Pedro bishop also revealed that the economic prowess which Hartley boasted were of "personal aid, not institutional," which could explain the reason for the constant confrontations with residents and industrialists in the the communitgy Los Llanos, a sugar cane producing region.
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But Ozoria, despite describing the acts committed as "grave" and of "disloyalty to the Church" San Antonio, in El Puerto township, thanked Hartley for the "spiritual, physical transformation, with much love, and missionary enthusiasm," shown by the prelate in the San Pedro area.
The bishop's revelation could become the second major scandal in the Dominican Catholic Church, after the case of alleged witchcraft and multiple rapes committed against minors in an orphanage run by the Higuey Diocese in San Rafael del Yuma rocked the country's catholic faithful.
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