Dutchess Priest Removed from Parishes Over Molestation Allegation

PAWLING, NY — A priest with two Dutchess County parishes has been accused of molesting a 15-year-old in the late 1980s.

Father Anthony Giuliano, who once said homosexuals had to be celibate to be good Catholics, was running parishes in Pawling and Dover Plains, the New York Daily News said, when police were told August 16 that he had molested a now-43-year-old man at a Bronx church.

Law enforcement officials said the claim is credible, and Giuliano was removed from the parishes by the Archdiocese of New York.

Giuliano has said the allegation is not true, abc7ny.com said.

For more details, read the Daily News story and the article at abc7ny.com.

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