Pushback from some parishioners after Spokane bishop removes priest amid allegations
October 17, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Some parishioners have pushed back after the Diocese of Spokane removed a priest from ministry.
“Bishop Thomas Daly has taken unusually public steps to disclose the nature of the allegations against Mejía and to brief parishioners on evidence of sexual and financial wrongdoing, a level of transparency rarely seen in the Catholic Church,” InvestigateWest reported. But some parishioners “see it as a politically or personally motivated purge—an effort by a conservative bishop to oust a popular priest whose warm, pastoral style clashed with Daly’s more hard-line approach.”
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