BUFFALO (NY)
WKBW
March 3, 2020
Decision on Gatto also questioned
Msgr. Robert Zapfel, pastor of St. Leo’s Catholic Church in Amherst, allowed his parish to be used last week for the controversial Mass Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger celebrated with priests with substantiated child sexual abuse claims.
At that Mass, Fr. Thomas Gresock was invited to bring up the gifts — bread and wine, to be consecrated into what Catholics believe is the body and blood of Christ — even though Zapfel himself investigated child sexual abuse claims against Gresock in 1987 and determined them to be credible, internal documents obtained by the 7 Eyewitness News I-Team show.
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