BOSTON (MA)
U.S. Catholic
Thursday, August 2, 2012
By Catholic News Service
BOSTON (CNS) — The Boston Archdiocese placed a Franciscan priest on administrative leave from his pastoral duties following his arrest on child pornography charges that involved the use of a computer located in the parish rectory.
Father Andrzej Urbaniak, a Conventual Franciscan who serves at Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish, was arrested July 31 and charged with possessing and distributing child pornography. At his arraignment the next day, he pleaded not guilty.
“The provincial superior of his religious order in Poland has been informed of the matter. Father Urbaniak’s faculties have been suspended and he is not allowed to function as a priest in the archdiocese,” said a statement released Aug. 1 by Boston church officials.
The archdiocese said it is “fully cooperating with law enforcement.”
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