MISSOURI
Berger’s Beat
. .Belleville’s Fr. Leo Hayes, who was embroiled in a real estate scandal years ago, has been tapped to lead a tour of Italy’s Sorrento peninsula organized by the Swansea-based Golden Frontier Travel, according to an ad in the St. Louis archdiocese’s newspaper. The agency was founded by the now-defrocked Fr. Robert Vonnahem. (Maybe Hayes will regale his fellow travelers with stories about how John Wayne Gacy served as one of his altar boys when the priest was the prison chaplain at the Menard Correctional Center, the largest maximum-security prison in Illinois.
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