Catholic Church Still Paying Priest Who Impregnated Teen and Arranged Her Abortion
Abortion is a crime under canon law. … Despite that fact, the Most Rev. James Timlin, then bishop, never referred Skotek to the Vatican to seek his permanent dispensation from the ministry, known as laicization or defrocking, the diocese said. Under canon law, any priest who is removed from the ministry, but not laicized, is … [Read more…]