BUFFALO (NY)
The Buffalo News

October 14, 2018

By Jay Tokasz

A Catholic church deacon who said he was molested by a priest as a teenager has become the second cleric to call for Buffalo Diocese Bishop Richard J. Malone to resign over his handling of clergy sexual abuse allegations.

Paul C. Emerson, a deacon at St. Joseph University Church in Buffalo, said in an interview with The News that Malone is complicit in a cover-up of the abuse and needs to step down for healing in the diocese to begin.

“I think he should resign,” said Emerson. “The guy has lost the confidence of a great number of people, people that need to trust their bishop.”

“I think there should be a cleansing of the bishops that were involved in this in any way, shape or form,” he added.

Emerson joined Paul L. Snyder III, a deacon at…