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New York Daily News
BY ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, LARRY MCSHANE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Saturday, December 12, 2015
His parishioners say he’s debauched — and he now could be defrocked.
The accused Bronx S&M priest at the center of a sex and embezzlement scandal faces dismissal if the charges prove true, his boss Timothy Cardinal Dolan said Saturday.
“Obviously, his priesthood will be over” if a church probe turns up evidence of anything illegal, said Dolan.
“We’ve found no evidence of embezzlement,” continued the spiritual leader of the Archdiocese of New York. “We’ve got to get to the bottom of this. I feel so bad for the parish.”
The Rev. Peter Miqueli was accused in a Manhattan lawsuit of looting more than $1 million from a pair of city parishes to help fund a perverse long-term love affair with a hunky boyfriend.
According to the detailed court papers, the 53-year-old priest and his muscle-bound boy toy shared a sexual relationship where the submissive Miqueli addressed love Keith Crist as “Master.”
The priest, as part of their bizarre affair, even drank Crist’s urine, the suit charged.
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