Saturday, December 10, 2011

St. Michael the Archangel, Greenwich, Ct

Please excuse a rambling post, subject to more editing.  I am in the process of reworking an older post.
Michael Moynihan, a former pastor of the parish of St. Michael the Archangel in upscale Greenwich, Connecticut, has pleaded guilty to a single count in federal court, as related in this article from The Greenwich Time.  He could win up to twenty years in jail time for fibbing to the FBI.  Apparently, the charge of stealing from the parish was dropped, perhaps because the proving this charge was easier.
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In 2007 or 2008, a local bank tipped off the feds that the pastor was withdrawing large sums from a parish account. It turns out there were two secret parish accounts of which Bishop Lori of Bridgeport had not been notified. Then the New York Post revealed the ex-pastor's living arrangement. Articles soon gave a fuller disclosure from the diocese of what their audits found. It is said that his ordination by John Paul II is or was depicted in a stained glass window in the sacristy of the parish's St. Christopher chapel up north near the Merritt Parkway.

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