CANADA/UNITED STATES
Vancouver Sun
By Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun January 21, 2012
An American priest, who has been financially supported for the past five years by the priest and parishioners of a Vancouver Catholic church, has been convicted of sexually molesting a minor by an ecclesiastical tribunal in Pennsylvania.
In its decision, reached last October, the tribunal recommended to the Vatican that Eric Ensey be dismissed as a priest.
“The tribunal reached moral certitude that Ensey had indeed committed the offences of which he was accused,” Fr. Tom Doyle wrote in letters sent last week to Vancouver Archbishop Michael Miller and John Hor-gan, the priest at Saints Peter and Paul Church.
Doyle, a Dominican priest and canonical lawyer, represented the victims.
“I realize that Ensey and his cohorts continue to insist on their innocence,” he wrote. “They have masked themselves with a deceitful veil of traditional orthodoxy, which has proven successful in duping a number of people. Unfortunately there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”
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