You couldn't make it up dept.:

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Quoted from a Catholic source:

Fr. Shirilla was relieved of his post in 1993 when he was identified as a serial child molester, who favored young altar boys, going back more than 20 years. He never quite lost favor with Cardinal Maida, however, and was secretly re-assigned seven years later as pastor of a parish in the Diocese of Gaylord, Michigan.

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...and cry on the inside. :/

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Oh, I don't know. The Church has survived worse ecclesiastical criminality than this. "The gates of Hell" have never quite prevailed. But this sort of thing ruins so many lives - I have known at least two cases of men whose lives were ruined, literally ruined, by teen-age relationships with priests.