HAWAII
Damon Tucker
A Catholic bishop recently led a funeral for an accused predator priest who was hiding in another country.
We just learned that Fr. Anthony Bolger, a priest who is publicly accused of sexually abusing a child in Hawai’i, died months ago while in hiding in Tijuana, Mexico.
Hawai’i Bishop Clarence Silva even presided over Bolger’s funeral.
We are upset by Silva’s recklessness, callousness, and secrecy.
Fr. Bolger joins a long list of credibly accused child-molesting clerics who have been allowed by their Catholic supervisors to live unsupervised in the Mexico border town among unsuspecting families and vulnerable children. As best we can tell, the local Tijuana community was not warned of the accusations against Bolger and that children were put in direct risk.
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