EAST LONGMEADOW -- Springfield Bishop Thomas L. Dupre last year said the diocese he heads was ''fortunate'' because one of his predecessors had destroyed records about priests implicated in the sexual abuse of minors, according to a priest who accuses Dupre of not doing enough to confront the scandal. In an interview yesterday here at St. Michael's Church, where he is pastor, the Rev. James J. Scahill said Dupre mentioned the destroyed records in front of him and several other priests at a meeting of the diocese's presbyteral council about two months after the sexual abuse scandal exploded in Boston in January 2002.
Posted by Editor at September 17, 2003 12:42 PM