STATEN ISLAND (NY)
Staten Island Advance

October 8, 2018

By Maura Grunlund

Monsignor Francis Boyle, the former longtime pastor at Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church in West Brighton, “will never serve as a priest again” after a church panel substantiated sex-abuse allegations against him, according to the Archdiocese of New York.

The fall from grace is a stunning turn of events for the man who served crucial leadership roles on the Island and throughout the archdiocese during more than 60 years in the priesthood.

He was an administrator at seminaries and held sway on archdiocesan organizations that determined the job assignments for priests and finances for parishes.