ILLINOIS
Daily Herald
Kerry Lester
Pope Francis has proclaimed 2016 the “Year of Mercy” for Catholics, and that theme is being vividly demonstrated at a Mount Prospect parish.
In the coming weeks, St. Raymond de Penafort parish will begin housing a retired priest who was convicted of theft in 2008 for stealing roughly $40,000 from a Chicago church and using the money on vacations, laptops, massages and personal training sessions.
Cook County prosecutors said the Rev. Steve Patte, who formally retired last year, issued checks and wired money to his personal accounts as reimbursement for expenditures that never occurred. He was sentenced to four years of probation.
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