WINDSOR (CANADA)
Windsor Star
January 3, 2019
By Trevor Wilhelm
Bishop Ronald Fabbro has kicked two Windsor priests facing sexual assault allegations out of the London diocese.
In a notice to parishioners a few days before Christmas, Fabbro wrote with “great sadness” about the dismissals of Maurice Charbonneau and Andrew Dwyer.
“Neither Maurice Charbonneau nor Andrew Dwyer may present themselves as clerics or, in any way, represent the Diocese of London,” Fabrro wrote. “Anyone who observes that either individual is acting in a manner that is inconsistent with this directive is asked to advise my office immediately.”
The diocese said it doesn’t use the term “defrocked,” but added that both men have been “dispensed of the obligations of priestly ordination and permanently removed from the clerical state of priesthood.”
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