NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Union Leader
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER — Luke Parkin, the man involved in an “inappropriate adult relationship” with the Rev. Msgr. Ed Arsenault III, is a gay recording artist/composor with 70 albums to his credit, according to Internet websites.
In interviews with music sites and gay-oriented sites, Parkin talks about his music, growing up gay and his dating habits. He never mentions romantic interests by name.
“Dating is fun when it’s not called ‘dating,'” he tells Chicago.GoPride.com in an interview. He said he’d favor a man who looks like Tom Brady, writes like Proust and can preach self-reliance like Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Assistant New Hampshire Attorney General Jane Young on Wednesday said the investigation into Arsenault’s thefts of funds from the Manchester Catholic diocese and Catholic Medical Center found that the priest spent much of the stolen funds on Parkin.
Young called the relationship between the two consensual. …
The Diocese said the attorney general’s investigation found that between 2007 and early 2009, Arsenault billed the Diocese for numerous expenses related to the relationship:
• $2,500 for a cell phone.
• $3,200 for a trip to Santa Fe, New York and San Francisco, which included a $159 breakfast at the Four Seasons in San Francisco.
• Forty-eight nights at an extended stay hotel in Amesbury, Mass. Arsenault initially told Diocesan investigators the hotel was for a “homeless international priest,” the Diocese said.
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