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Father Marco Mercado recently traveled to Washington, D.C., as Congressman Luis Gutierrez’s guest for Pope Francis’ speech to Congress
Archbishop Blase Cupich has removed a popular suburban priest from the ministry after the Archdiocese discovered the priest had an “inappropriate relationship” with an adult man.
The Archdiocese removed Father Marco Mercado, who was the rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines, on Thursday. The Rev. Adan Sandoval Duron was appointed as the interim administrator.
“On October 1, 2015, Archbishop Blase J. Cupich removed Rev. Marco A. Mercado, Rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines from ministry because of Fr. Mercado’s inappropriate relationship with an adult man,” a statement from the Archdiocese reads. “Archbishop Cupich has withdrawn Fr. Mercado’s faculties, his authority to minister … Fr. Mercado will reside away from the Shrine, effective immediately.
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