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Laicized Maryland priest arrested for abuse

October 13, 2009

A former priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore has been arrested in North Carolina following accusations that he abused a teenage boy between 1977 and 1982. Michael Lowell Barnes, 64, left the priesthood in 1998 and until earlier this year served as director of adult faith formation at a parish in the Archdiocese of Washington.

 

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  • Posted by: Gil125 - Oct. 13, 2009 2:37 PM ET USA

    Uh, he left the priesthood in 1998 and until this year was director of adult faith formation in the Archdiocese of Washington? What am I missing here? Or what's Archbishop Wuerl missing?

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Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Bridget, Religious

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Bridget (1302-1373), patron saint of Sweden. She married a young prince and lived happily with him for 28 years, bearing him eight children. St. Catherine of Sweden was their daughter. After her husband died, Bridget founded the Order of the Most Holy…

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