Suspended priest ordained in Maine dies in Texas

MAINE/TEXAS
Bangor Daily News

By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff

Posted Aug. 01, 2012

PORTLAND, Maine — A former Maine priest suspended from the ministry seven years ago after he was arrested for allegedly groping a teenage boy in a Texas movie theater has died, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland announced Wednesday.

Paul Clogan died Sunday in Austin, Texas, at the age of 81.

Clogan worked as a priest in Maine for 18 months before transferring to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin in January 2001.

He was a priest at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Horseshoe Falls, Texas, when he was arrested in December 2005 at a movie theater in the nearby town of Marble Falls, according to a previously published report.

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