Bronx priest accused of using $1 million in church funds to fund S&M love affair resigns from church
NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY BARBARA ROSS, ROSS KEITH, LARRY MCSHANE
Saturday, December 12, 2015
An alleged S&M-loving Bronx priest is now feeling his parishioners’ pain.
The Rev. Peter Miqueli, accused of fleecing his flocks in two city parishes to finance a freaky sex life, announced his resignation Saturday as pastor of a Bronx church.
Hours before the word came at the 5 p.m. Mass, Timothy Cardinal Dolan said the priest could go from debauched to defrocked if found guilty of swiping more than $1 million across 10 years.
“I have made the decision to step aside … while this unfortunate and regrettable situation is investigated,” said Miqueli’s resignation letter, which was read to the faithful at St. Frances de Chantal Church.
Two days earlier, a lawsuit filed by members of St. Frances de Chantal and Miqueli’s former church, St. Francis Cabrini on Roosevelt Island, accused…
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