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Orange County Priest Says He's Struggling With Alcohol, Celibacy Orange County Priest Says He's Struggling With Alcohol, Celibacy
Orange County Priest Says He's Struggling With Alcohol, Celibacy A priest from the area addressed his flock via Facebook, explaining that he had been in a rehabilitation facility for his alcoholism during his previously unexplained multi-week absence. "I have been spending time in a residential treatment program to confront the problem I have with alcohol," wrote Father Jeffrey J. Maurer of Saint Mary's Church in Washingtonville in Orange County in a letter that had been mailed to church members and posted to Facebook on Monday, Sept. 14. "This period of reflection and treatment has also forced me to confront the fact that, when drinking, I made an improp…

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by Christina Coulter