PHILADELPHIA (PA)
NBC 10
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Philadelphia Archdiocese has found two new priests to be unsuitable for ministry due to sexual abuse.
In statements released Sunday afternoon, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput acknowledged that Monsignor George J. Mazzotta and retired Monsignor Hugh P. Campbell had “been found unsuitable for ministry.”
Mazzotta, 73, had not been permitted to wear clerical garb, perform his ministry, or present himself as a priest since May 2010, when the Archdiocese first received an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor. According to the Archdiocesan statement, the allegation has since been “substantiated,” and cited as the reason for the Church’s action.
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