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Ralph Cipriano
Last week, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput stopped by the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Northeast Philadelphia, where Msgr. William J. Lynn is being held in protective custody.
The archbishop did not bring along his mitre or his crozier. He stayed for 90 minutes. But what the two men talked about is not known.
“Archbishop Chaput did visit with Monsignor Lynn,” said Kenneth A. Gavin, a spokesman for the archdiocese. “Their conversation was private.”
“It is my understanding that it was a positive visit and I think that’s all I should say,” said Thomas A. Bergstrom, the monsignor’s defense lawyer.
A prison spokesman declined to discuss the archbishop’s visit, except to say that Chaput was no stranger to the facility. Last Christmas, Chaput stopped by the prison gymnasium to say Mass for the inmates.
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