Reader’s View: Church continues to blackball priest

DULUTH (MN)
Duluth News Tribune

November 21, 2018

By Lisa Lou Dunaiski, Duluth

I was baptized and confirmed at St.Michael’s Church in Lakeside. The bishop is alienating several of us in the Catholic church by blackballing Fr. William Graham (“Split verdict in Duluth priest’s suit against accuser,” Aug. 25).

Of late, I have been impressed by letters in the News Tribune in support of Fr. Graham, a real genuine man who has taught theology at the College of St. Scholastica. He earns his own money.

I agreed with the letter that said Graham’s accuser came forward in the last hours and that there had been no other complaints ever about Fr. Graham (Reader’s View: “Fr. Graham didn’t deserve bishop’s treatment,” Oct. 20). In the last hours was just in time to destroy a man’s parish and career.

Graham wasn’t even where the alleged abuse occurred, according to another priest and his Oct. 3 commentary, “‘Yes, I am angry!’: Alleged abuse did not happen.”

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