NYC Priest Axed Over “Inappropriate” Chats With Teens

The New York Daily News reports:

A Queens priest has been stripped of his clerical collar after a Catholic Church review board substantiated claims of misconduct, officials said Monday.

Not only was the Rev. John O’Connor forced to step down as pastor of St. Gregory the Great in Bellerose, he was completely removed from the ministry upon the recommendation of an independent panel investigating allegations in a lawsuit against O’Connor.

This probe turned up new evidence concerning a March 2000 accusation detailing “inappropriate internet communications with teenagers” while assigned at St. Athanasius Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, the board said.

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