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By Nicholas Rizzi | May 24, 2016
STATEN ISLAND — A priest accused of aiming vulgar, racist, sexist and homophobic rants at his staff is the target of a petition demanding his ouster that’s been signed by 1,800 people in just a week.
St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School alum Anthony Galli started the online petition demanding the Archdiocese of New York fire Father Michael Reilly as the school’s head.
“Indeed, it has been common knowledge for at least a decade among students, parents, teachers and alumni of Sea that Fr. Reilly has used vulgar, discriminatory and unchristian language in scandalizing members of the faculty, staff and community on school property, during school hours and in front of students,” Galli, who was valedictorian in 2009, wrote on the petition’s page.
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