NEW MEXICO
KOB
[with video]
Posted at: 09/03/2013
By: Ryan Luby, KOB Eyewitness News 4
A long-time pastor in the Gallup Diocese said the organization cannot afford to address 20 claims of clergy sex abuse on its own, some of which date to the 1950’s.
Father Timothy Farrell, a pastor of a Farmington church, told KOB Eyewitness News 4 that the diocese is – or certainly is among – the poorest in the United States.
“We operate the Diocese on a wing and a prayer, because there’s not really any money, and, so yeah, this is devastating,” Farrell said.
He said a large percentage of the parishioners worship in small missions – in trailers or in log cabins – not in big churches.
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