CANADA/BRAZIL
Metro
By Staff Torstar News Service
A Brazilian bishop has contacted the Hamilton Diocese to advise that a former St. Mary’s Roman Catholic priest is receiving treatment in his homeland.
Bishop Juarez Sousa, of Oeiras diocese in Brazil, stated in a July 17 letter that Rev. Joseph Gildasio de Sousa Silva — who served for two years at St. Mary’s — returned to Brazil on May 5 and arrived in Oeiras on May 10.
“Father Jose Gildasio will definitely not return to Canada and is removed from priestly duties concerning the Church,” the bishop wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Spectator.
Sousa said the priest was initially sent to a help centre where he received therapy called ADI (Direct Approach of the Unconscious) before being sent to a therapeutic community “whose privacy we would like to preserve.”
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