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It had been two years since Murphy had quietly sued Casey in New York. The bishop, through an intermediary in the states, paid nearly $100,000 to Murphy using diocesan funds as part of the suit ...
Eamonn Casey (24 April 1927 – 13 March 2017) was an Irish Catholic priest who served as bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh in Ireland from 1976 to 1992. His resignation in 1992, after it was revealed he had had an affair with an American woman, Annie Murphy, was a significant event in the history of the Irish Catholic Church.
James Augustine McFaul (June 6, 1850 – June 16, 1917) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Trenton in New Jersey from 1894 until his death in 1917.
The Christian Front was mainly based in New York City and many of its members were Irish and German American Catholics. [2] Their activities included distributing like-minded publications and participating in rallies. After the American government began investigations in the late 1930s, a few members were arrested and prosecuted.
Isabel de Clare, suo jure 4th Countess of Pembroke and Striguil (c. 1172 – 11 March 1220), was an Anglo-Norman and Irish noblewoman descended from Aoife Macmurrough and Richard de Clare and one of the wealthiest heiresses in Wales and Ireland. [1]
A native of the New York borough of Queens, Kevin Sweeney was born on January 10, 1970, to James and Agnes (Blewitt) Sweeney. He has a sister, Marie Shanahan, and a brother, Brendan. [ 2 ] Kevin Sweeney grew up in St. Luke's Parish in Whitestone, Queens , and attended Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary in Queens from 1984 to 1988.
The accepted norm in the Irish Church was that its priesthood was celibate and chaste, and homosexuality was both a sin and a crime. [8] The Church forbade its members (the "faithful") to use artificial contraception, campaigned strongly against laws allowing abortion and divorce, and publicly disapproved of unmarried cohabiting couples and illegitimacy.
Richard Luke Concanen, O.P. (December 27, 1747 – June 19, 1810) was an Irish-born Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of New York from 1808 to 1810. He was a member of the Dominicans . Biography