MASON (MI)
Patheos
April 2, 2018
by Terry Firma
Stories about thieving clergy members are truly a dime a dozen, but among that deeply disreputable crowd, the Rev. Jonathan Wehrle is special.
That’s because his loot doesn’t top out at a few thousand dollars, or even a few hundred thousand. Wehrle, his accusers say, five-fingered millions of dollars of parish money and spent it on luxuries like an indoor swimming pool for his mansion and six figures’ worth of landscaping for his lavish ten-acre estate.
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