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Philadelphia Inquirer
By John P. Martin and Claudia Vargas
Inquirer Staff Writers
A former Port Richmond pastor is among the Catholic priests who will be permanently removed from ministry over child-sex abuse allegations, according to a lawyer for a man who said the cleric raped him.
Archdiocese of Philadelphia officials notified the accuser on Thursday that Msgr. Francis J. Feret won’t be reinstated, attorney Daniel Monahan said.
Feret, 75, spent more than a decade as pastor of St. Adalbert in the city’s Port Richmond section, and twice as long as a teacher and administrator at Cardinal Dougherty High School.
Reached by phone late Thursday, Feret said: “I’m sorry, I don’t have anything to say,” then hung up.
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