03 March 2012

No, no, we should be encouraging him

Philly.com has an article about a priest in trouble with the law:
A priest from a Northeast Philadelphia parish was arrested last week on charges that he tried to pick up a prostitute in Kensington, police said.
The Reverend Patrick McCormick, the parochial vicar of St. Timothy Church in Mayfair, allegedly approached a police officer, posing as a prostitute as part of a citywide vice unit operation, on Kensington Avenue near I Street about 11 p.m. on 23 February, police said. McCormick, 48, was charged with patronizing a prostitute and entered into the Accelerated Misdemeanor Program. He was ordered to perform eighteen hours of community service and pay two hundred dollars in fines, according to court records.
A spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia called McCormick's arrest "deeply troubling" and said McCormick had been placed on administrative leave.
Rico says they're 'deeply troubled' because it wasn't some underaged boy, fer crissakes. That they've got no trouble with...

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