At the time, Lahey was the bishop for St. George's diocese in western Newfoundland. In 2003 he moved to Nova Scotia to head the diocese of Antigonish.
"I asked him what he did with [that information], and Father Molloy mentioned that he had taken it to the appropriate authorities. In this case, it would have been Archbishop [Alphonsus] Penney," Currie said.
Penney was not available for an interview Monday, but CBC News reached Molloy in Florida where he is now a priest. Molloy confirmed what Currie told CBC News.
In short ... once again, the church hierarchy quietly hushed it up ... until 20 years later when his laptop is checked and found to be full of child porn. This is precisely what I was talking about when I excoriated Michael Coren for his naive defense of the church.
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Was it kiddiePorn or Nazi Porn?
Perhaps it was just pictures of Ratzinger in his Hitler Youth uniform with a banana in his pocket, or sexually aroused by his newfound sense of power!
And yet the sheep still flock to Mass every week to offer up their cash and kids to this rotten institution.
What was that song? "When will they ever learn" or something?
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