WARWICK (NY)
Times Herald-Record
By Doyle Murphy
Times Herald-Record
WARWICK — A Catholic priest has lost his spot in a Warwick church after archdiocesan officials learned he had fathered a child.
Bishop Dominick Lagonegro told parishioners at St. Stephen The First Martyr that Father Casmir Mung’aho never told the archdiocese about the child even as he completed his training in seminary and became a priest. Lagonegro delivered the message to church members in person.
He originally said Mung’aho’s child was born before he entered the seminary following a “consensual relationship with an adult woman.” Lagonegro later issued a follow-up statement saying he’d learned the child was actually born during Mung’aho’s first year at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers.
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