"Defrocked New Hampshire priest arrested for embezzling funds"

lifesitenews.com

"A prominent New Hampshire priest has been defrocked and put under house arrest over an embezzlement scandal involving his homosexual partners.

The Diocese of Manchester announced last week that the Vatican dismissed Edward J. Arsenault III from the clerical state effective February 28.

In addition to having been the face of the Church in the state during a local sex abuse scandal, he had a role in establishing the Church’s child protection policies in the U.S. and risk management for dioceses nationwide in response to the clergy sex abuse scandal...

Arsenault held several high-ranking positions for the Diocese of Manchester between 1999 and 2009.

As Bishop McCormack’s media spokesman, Arsenault managed a major clergy sex abuse crisis that erupted in New Hampshire in 2003 involving 83 victims.

Arsenault became president and CEO of Saint Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Md., in 2009. He resigned from St. Luke Institute in 2013 after allegations involving his misuse of Church funds and for others over an 'inappropriate adult relationship.'

St. Luke’s is a prominent mental health treatment facility specializing in Catholic clergy and in particular those afflicted by sex abuse tendencies. The Maryland-based facility has two other U.S. sites and one in England... the facility is controversial for its founding by an openly homosexual priest and also because it uses homosexual and pedophilia-affirming theories and treatment techniques involving pornography."