Catholic Priests Rehabilitating

Now, instead of preying on young boys, at least they're having sex with adult women:

NEW YORK - A Roman Catholic monsignor named in court papers as "the other man" in a divorce case resigned Thursday as rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the New York archdiocese said.

Cardinal Edward Egan accepted Msgr. Eugene Clark's resignation from the key church position despite the 79-year-old Clark's denials that he has been carrying on an affair with his 46-year-old private secretary, the church said.

"He offered his resignation for the good of Saint Patrick's and the archdiocese," the statement said. "He will not be celebrating Mass or the sacraments publicly until this matter has been resolved."

Clark had been rector of St. Patrick's in midtown Manhattan since 2001 and had often celebrated Mass there when the cardinal was away. He was named in divorce papers filed last week in Family Court in White Plains by Philip DeFilippo, 46, who said that a private investigator taped his wife, Laura, and the monsignor entering and leaving a Long Island hotel last month. The videotape was shown Monday to New York City newspapers.

The Archdiocese is apparently learning from their mistakes too, instead of sending Monsignor Clark to Iowa to preach and defile there, they're actually letting him resign.

As Tbogg said, I'm sure Sen. Santorum will promptly write an article blaming this on Massachusetts.

By the way, this guy MARRIED the couple he's now breaking up. He's also said this:

A strong proponent of traditional morality, Clark blamed the church's sex-abuse scandal in 2002 on "the campaign of liberal America against celibacy."  The staunch conservative suggested in a homily that homosexuality was a disorder caused by the sinful images that are pervasive in American culture.

I'm sure it was those same sinful images that forced you to be weak and break that 6th Commandment. Does that mean you were watching "Are You Hot?"

Family values, folks, come an' get it.