FORT KENT (ME)
Bangor Daily News
By Julia Bayly, Special to the BDN
Posted April 04, 2012, at 5:57 p.m.
FORT KENT, Maine — Parish and community members rallied Wednesday behind the Rev. James L. Nadeau whose sudden leave of absence from his post as pastor of St. John Vianney Parish took his flock by surprise.
The voluntary leave was announced late Tuesday by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland and the Maine attorney general’s office, which is conducting an investigation of unspecified allegations against the 51-year-old priest.
“I am very saddened by this whole thing,” Norma Landry, past chairwoman of the St. John Vianney Parish Council, said Wednesday morning. “Nobody really knows what is going on [and] in times like this I always turn to prayer.”
The allegations and subsequent leave taking by Nadeau could not have come at a worse time for the parish’s practicing Catholics.
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