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Spotlight Takes Place 14 Years Ago, but the Catholic Church Is Still Dealing with Sex Scandals

By Charles P. Pierce
Esquire
December 14, 2015

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a40471/timothy-dolan-catholic-church-scandals/

Getty John Lamparski

Holy hell, you should pardon the expression. It is for stories like this that God made tabloid newspapers.

"I have made the decision to step aside ... while this unfortunate and regrettable situation is investigated," said Miqueli's resignation letter, which was read to the faithful at St. Frances de Chantal Church. Two days earlier, a lawsuit filed by members of St. Frances de Chantal and Miqueli's former church, St. Francis Cabrini on Roosevelt Island, accused Miqueli of using the looted funds to help finance a perverse master/slave love affair with boy toy Keith Crist. The priest played the submissive role, even agreeing to drink Crist's urine, the suit charged. The priest paid his sex partner $1,000 a pop for the rough sex sessions, according to the suit.

Now, as is well-known, we don't go in for mere voyeurism here in the shebeen—But, if we did, hoo, boy!—so our excuse for mentioning Father 50 Shades Of Grace here is to mention once again that Dolan From New York is proving to be a rather less than effective leader of his flock. Earlier in his career, when he was presiding in Milwaukee, Dolan almost literally buried church funds to keep them away from litigants who'd been molested by priests of that archdiocese, stashing $57 million away in an archdiocesan cemetery trust fund. Despite these shenanigans, he got the red hat and the big chair in New York where he has behaved like a cheap-seats Spellman, wearing his Yankee cap, cracking wise on satellite radio and on Morning Joe, and being altogether a handy nuisance for those people opposed to what Papa Francesco is about over there in Rome. Now, as it turns out, he probably knew more than he'd liked to have known about his alleged wandering slave-boy cleric. Here's the tell.

Dolan said he turned the e-mails over to investigators soon after receiving them this past summer from whistle-blower Tatyana Gudin, onetime live-in girlfriend and confidante of the priest's S&M "master" Keith Crist. First, though, Dolan invited Gudin to take her evidence to archdiocese investigators, the cardinal said. Gudin backed out when the archdiocese insisted she come alone, explained attorney Michael Dowd, who is representing her and the lawsuit's 14 parishioner plaintiffs.

Jesus H. Christ on a steam table, there's a damn hit movie out there right now about what happens when first you take your evidence to archdiocesan investigators. That Dolan thought he could run this rap after everything else that's gone on over the past 15 years is proof enough that he's learned nothing. Your Yankee cap won't get you into heaven anymore, pal.

 

 

 

 

 




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