OHIO
Courhouse News Service
By KYLE ANNE UNISS
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) – A would-be Roman Catholic priest wants court help after his seminary expelled him over a supposedly “credible accusation of homosexual activity.”
The seminarian in question filed the complaint anonymously as John Doe last week in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas.
He claims he has been a member of the Pontifical College Josephinum’s “priestly formation program” since 2010.
Though expected to graduate this May with a master’s degree in theology, Doe says the Columbus, Ohio, school sent him packing after an ambush meeting on Oct. 10.
The Rev. Walter Oxley, the school’s vice rector and a priest in Toledo, told Doe that his investigation found a “credible accusation of homosexual activity,” according to the Dec. 2 action.
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