Priest fired from college after man’s email to Rigali
In the matter of a week, Father Jim St. George went front teaching several classes at Chestnut Hill College to being let go for seemingly no reason. Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky suspects it has something to do with a letter a DN reader sent to Cardinal Justin Rigali.
In the email, the reader says St. George, an openly gay priest with the Old Catholic Apostolic Church of America, shouldn’t be allowed to teach theology at the college, given his sexual orientation. Since then, neither St. George nor Polaneczky has been able to get an answer from the Catholic college as to why St. George was let go despite glowing reviews from students and fellow faculty.
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