Apparently, half a million dollars isn't nearly enough!

Presbyter Michael Moynihan, pastor of St. Michael's Parish in Greenwich, Connecticut, got off with merely resigning from his position, after a preliminary financial audit uncovered more than $500,000 unaccounted for. William Lori, Bishop of Bridgeport since January 2001, declared that in spite of the embezzlement, Moynihan remains "a priest [sic] in good standing." Moynihan shares that distinction with the thousands of other presbyter-embezzlers and presbyter-rapists, whom the Church refuses to expel and punish according to the gravity of their crimes.

Lori himself has been involved in several embezzlement scandals of his pastors. For example, in 2006 a scandal broke involving Michael Fay, former pastor of St. John Parish in Darien. Fay was accused by police of spending $1,400,000 in parish funds over six years, some of it to buy gifts for a man who was his paramour. The record shows that Lori is an incompetent, who should be offering his own resignation. Naturally, our Pope wants to keep him on, nevertheless.

Moynihan used Parish funds as his own personal finances and kept at least two "off-the-books" bank accounts, which only he knew about and had control of. About $1,400,000 in transactions passed through one account -- half a million of which auditors cannot account for because checks were used to pay for some of Moynihan's personal credit cards and, in some cases, were made out simply to "Cash."

Lori is certainly not the only evil one in Bridgeport. In spite of the fact that Moynihan had apparently bilked them of half a million dollars, several beknighted parishioners defended the embezzler and were critical of Lori's decision to ask for Moynihan's resignation. Several other parishioners left the church crying and upset, saying that the Church Diocese had mistreated Moynihan. [Source: Hartford Courant]

The support by pew congregants of their pastors who rape their children and embezzle parish money is nothing less than diabolical [read of Satan]. These are the same people that routinely call presbyter-rapists and embezzlers "the best presbyters we ever had." Don't feel sorry for these bedeviled churchgoers. They deserve everything they get. They are not innocent bystanders. They are aiding and abetting criminals and should be "cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 8:12/DRV).