Five allege abuse by priests | Philadelphia Inquirer

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Posted on Fri, Jan. 30, 2004

Five allege abuse by priests

By Larry Fish
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

ST. DAVID'S - James P. Dolan, now 37, held up a picture of himself as a tow-head of 15 and explained what it was like to be that boy.

"This kid here, his life had been stolen," Dolan said, by an abusive priest at the Good Shepherd church in West Philadelphia.

The priest he accused, the Rev. Joseph Gausch, is dead, he said, and at any rate the statute of limitations for any crime would have expired.

But he and four other men who say they were abused by other priests said today they were suing the Philadelphia archdiocese for allegedly giving known pedophiles access to children. Three of the five spoke at a news conference at the Radnor Hotel in St. David's.

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[Malva Zebrina]

1. shouldn't someone deny them communion?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. With this sort of thing going on

I would expect that the good Archbishop of St. Louis would keep his
f***ing mouth shut and get back to praying the rosary. And I say this with the utmost respect!