Toledo Church Exposes Filandering Heterosexual Priest

Photo: Toledo Blade

“Isn’t the truth one of our most important things?” Pretty accurate statement and stinging rebuke of the Catholic Church which as seen fit to out a heterosexual priest. Amazingly quick compared to the slow drawn out process of discovering the non-heterosexual priests who have had non-consensual and inappropriate relationships. The church in Ohio is certainly in trouble and this is just continuing to grow. What amazes me is that in the Catholic Bible it does say this could be avoided if the Scriptures were followed… “A Bishop must be the husband of one wife.” But then again one who can’t promise that they would be faithful to their wife either… or can they?

A Toledo priest who was to take over St. Rose Parish in Perrysburg — but then abruptly stepped away from the new post — has been placed on a sabbatical after a “consensual but inappropriate” relationship with a woman, the Toledo diocese said.

The Rev. David Nuss alerted the diocese in January about the relationship and has “expressed his sincere sorrow” for his actions, according to a release yesterday by the diocesan office.

But just why the diocese revealed the information yesterday is baffling and frustrating, said Joan Foster, a longtime St. Rose parishioner.

Bishop Leonard Blair “knew this in January and now he pretends this is brand new news? Aren’t we Christians? Isn’t truth one of our most important things?” she asked.

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