PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Beaver County Times
Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Associated Press
Two Roman Catholic archbishops moved a troubled priest to new parishes despite dire warnings he was having sex with minors, according to church documents read in a Philadelphia court Tuesday.
Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia assigned the late Rev. Peter Dunne to a suburban Warminster parish in 1987, a year after a therapist warned about any access to children.
And Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua sent Dunne to a northeast Philadelphia parish in 1989 _ after a church therapist had diagnosed him as a pedophile and ticking time bomb.
Defense lawyers for Monsignor William Lynn noted that at least three other top aides at the archdiocese knew of the diagnosis. Yet Dunne refused requests to seek laicization, and remained an active priest until his 1994 retirement _ and a priest until the day he died, in 2010.
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