Coyle will get the noose from the Vatican for having sex with a woman, meanwhile pedophile priests are protected and paid off for life with health and dental.In other news, a Belleville Bishop spends parishoner money on a kitchen remodel and trip to Africa, meanwhile this criminal still has unsupervised pedophiles on payroll. Still think your kids are safe in a catholic school?LOWELL, Mass. (AP/MyFoxBoston.com) – A high-ranking priest with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is facing a prostitution charge.
Authorities say the Rev. Arthur Coyle was granted $500 bail after pleading not guilty Monday in Lowell to a count of sexual conduct for a fee.
Coyle is the Episcopal Vicar for the Merrimack Region, meaning he oversees several parishes in the area. He lives at the rectory of St. Rita's Parish in Lowell.
Police say the 62-year-old was arrested just after 5 p.m. Sunday after he was allegedly found with a prostitute behind a Lowell cemetery.
Coyle reportedly gave the prostitute $40 to perform a sexual act, and as proof for police, sheshowed them the two $20 bills. The woman told police it was the second time he had paid her in return for sexual acts.
Police had reportedly been watching Coyle circle known prostitution spots for close to a year and stopping for known prostitutes more than a dozen times in the past 10 months.
FOX 25 spoke with one of the attorneys representing victims of the Catholic sex abuse scandal who says he is shocked by the hypocrisy of it all.
"You have the supervisor soliciting prostitution and apparently seeking it for months, and on the other hand you have that same person supervising priests with regards to their own sexual activity. It's not rocket science. There's a problem here," Mitchell Garabedian said.
More in this asshole: The Rev. Monsignor Arthur Coyle, who received the title of prelate of honor from Pope Benedict XVI last year, has been stopped for circling a part of the city frequented by drug dealers and streetwalkers, and his black Chevrolet Equinox is known to cops who work that area, Lowell police Detective Rafael Rivera wrote in his report.
"If a priest has fallen in love with a woman, he's kicked out of the priesthood," said Lena Woltering, a member of SNAP. "Why can't they be removed when they have molested a child?"
Questions also came up concerning construction at the bishop's official residence at 925 Centreville Ave. in Belleville. Various construction firm pickup trucks have been observed there in the last few months.
Total estimated cost of a renovation is often listed on a building permit. However, a request to examine any permit for the bishop's residence was turned down on Monday. A city employee required that a Freedom of Information Act form be filled out and, after that was received, said it would take three to five working days for a supervisor of the city Health and Housing Department to decide that such a public document can be examined by a member of the public.
The Daily Times of Nigeria reported last month that Braxton visited a Catholic church in the Nigerian river port city of Onitsha. Braxton, the newspaper reported, urged a group of newly-ordained priests to serve their God with "passion and undivided commitment." Braxton has previously traveled to Nigeria where he arranged for several African Catholic priests to return to the Diocese of Belleville to complete temporary clergy assignments.
"We respectfully but firmly urge you to reveal who paid for your trips overseas. We urge you to halt your new kitchen renovation and be honest about who paid for it," SNAP stated in a news release issued Monday.
"For the safety of kids, we urge you to stay home, (monitor) predator priests...(and) reveal how many boys and girls have been sexually assaulted by Belleville priests, and how much is being paid for their therapy," the release stated
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From SNAP
Victims blast bishop on spending
He remodels home again & goes abroad
And he’s still paying 7 or 8 predator clerics
Only two of 17 abusers have been defrocked
Church is monitoring & housing none of them
Group says “kids still at risk” 20 years after crisis erupted
Despite pledging “openness,” diocese won’t reveal # of victims
SNAP: Once “ahead of the curve,” Belleville diocese is now “far behind”
