FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
[with video]
By Ed Komenda, Sun Sentinel
7:28 p.m. EDT, July 9, 2012
Ed Furey never wanted to believe a priest could go against his own sermons about doing the right thing. But now, it doesn’t seem he has much choice in the matter.
No choice, he said, since reading a bizarre June 20 letter from the Rev. Giuseppe Savaia — a Catholic priest at Furey’s church in North Palm Beach’s, St. Clare’s Parish — announcing he would leave his job to deal with his arrest after two alleged shoplifting incidents in December 2011.
“It’s sad,” said Furey, 84, of North Palm, who has been going to the church since 1960. “I couldn’t understand.”
Many parishioners, like Furey, found the details of Savaia’s alleged shoplifting spree difficult to accept.
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