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Former Westchester Priest Suspended For Sexual Misconduct, Cardinal Timothy Dolan Says Former Westchester Priest Suspended For Sexual Misconduct, Cardinal Timothy Dolan Says
Former Westchester Priest Suspended For Sexual Misconduct, Cardinal Timothy Dolan Says A New York priest who began his career in Westchester has been suspended from the ministry after sexual allegations with an adult were reported to the Manhattan's District Attorney's Office. Father John Duffell, the former leader of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Manhattan, was directed on July 1, by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, "not to publicly exercise his priestly ministry due to an allegation from the past that he abused his position of authority in a violation of his promise of celibacy," the Cardinal said in a letter to the parish. Immediately following the…