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by Ryan Fitzgerald • ChurchMilitant.com • December 9, 2015
The seminary’s vice rector said there was a “credible accusation of homosexual activity”
COLUMBUS, Ohio (ChurchMilitant.com) – An expelled seminarian in Ohio has filed a lawsuit against his now-former seminary, the Pontifical College Josephinum (PCJ), after he was kicked out for alleged sodomy.
This past October, the vice rector of PCJ, Rev. Walter Oxley, told the ex-seminarian, who’s filed the complaint anonymously as “John Doe,” that he’d discovered a “credible accusation of homosexual activity” against Doe.
According to Doe, Msgr. Christopher Schreck, rector-president of the seminary, was at the meeting when the seminary confronted him about the matter. Based on the complaint, Schreck was apparently quite concerned about the student, encouraging him to “get [his] life in order and to avail [himself] of the sacraments.”
Doe argues that Schreck’s alleged involvement with the dismissal violates canon law, since Schreck was apparently his spiritual director.
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