DALLAS (TX)
The Dallas Morning News
By Brooks Egerton/Reporter
begerton@dallasnews.com
10:56 am on January 8, 2013
Bishop Joseph Galante is retiring early as head of the Catholic diocese in Camden, N.J., nine years after leaving Dallas in frustration over clergy sex-abuse scandals.
Galante is several months shy of the church’s mandatory retirement age of 75 and suffering from chronic kidney disease, according to news reports today.
He became Dallas’ coadjutor bishop in 2000. He expected to soon succeed Bishop Charles Grahmann, whose tenure was marked by a series of abuse scandals. But Grahmann refused to step aside.
Grahmann also refused to suspend a prominent priest who’d admitted “inappropriate contact” with an adult worshipper who sought a pain-relief blessing. The worshipper said the priest agreed to perform the blessing, as I reported in 2002, “then pulled down his jogging pants, groped him and propositioned him.”
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