PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
JASON NARK, Daily News Staff Writer| narkj@phillynews.com, 215-854-5916
Posted: Monday, April 8, 2013
THERE WILL be no more masses, no nervous couples to wed or babies to baptize, and no more white collars against a simple black suit for three Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests implicated in sexual-abuse scandals.
In a statement released Sunday, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said the Rev. Joseph J. Gallagher, 78, and the Rev. Mark S. Gaspar, 43, will have no further public ministry in the Archdiocese “due to substantiated violations of The Standards of Ministerial Behaviors and Boundaries.” The two were among the 26 Archdiocese priests placed on administrative leave in 2011 following a grand-jury report that prompted the Catholic Church here to look into old allegations that they molested children or acted inappropriately around them.
Monsignor Richard T. Powers, 77, a retired priest, was also deemed “not suitable for ministry,” Chaput said, following a substantiated allegation that he sexually abused a minor approximately 40 years ago outside the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. His case is not releated to the grand-jury report.
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