Pennsylvania: Nun Testifies about Being Fired

By Jon Hurdle
New York Times
April 9, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/us/pennsylvania-nun-testifies-about-being-fired.html?_r=1

A Roman Catholic nun testified Monday that she was fired from her job as director of religious education at a Pennsylvania parish after reporting her suspicions about a priest who had been convicted of receiving child pornography. Sister Joan Scary said at the landmark sexual abuse trial of two priests from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that she reported her suspicions about another priest, Edward M. DePaoli, to Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua in 1996. Father DePaoli, who was convicted on child pornography charges in 1986 and sentenced to probation, had been receiving magazines of a sexual nature at an office where Sister Scary worked. In May 1996, she said she sent one of the magazines to Cardinal Bevilacqua with an anonymous note expressing her concern. She told the court that the Rev. James Gormley, the pastor of the parish where she was working, later fired her. Judge M. Teresa Sarmina said she allowed prosecutors to refer to other abuse cases to allow jurors to understand the church's pattern of response.