By Paula Brooks
Lez Get Real
November 14, 2010
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A long serving Pittsburgh Catholic priest has resigned after a church audit discovered he had allegedly been taking church funds for his own use.
The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh announced yesterday, in a letter to be read to all parishioners attending mass this weekend, that Father Francis J. Drabiska of the Word of God Parish in Swissvale, PA, would no longer be their priest after church auditors discovered that funds were missing from the parish.
Drabiska had served as pastor of the parish for 16 years.
"It has become clear through careful review of parish finances by diocesan auditors that funds have been misappropriated in some fashion from Word of God," said Bishop David A. Zubik in a press release. Zubik further said that in addition to Drabiska's resignation, the matter would also be turned over to "civil authorities."
In other news… Groups representing victims of clergy sex abuse in the United States are still waiting for Pope Benedict XVI to remove Cardinal Bernard Law from the Congregation of Bishops and as head of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, for his complicity in the child sex abuse scandal in the Boston Arch-diocese.
Law has been hiding in Rome, out of reach from the "civil authorities" in Massachusetts since 2002.
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