Priest accused in fondling is defrocked by Vatican

By Ralph Ranalli

Globe Staff / June 2, 2004

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Robert V. Meffan, who as a priest said he sexually touched girls studying to be nuns to teach them to love Christ "as a human being" and who was later called mentally unbalanced by one church official, has been stripped of his priestly status by the Vatican, a spokesman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston said yesterday. (Full Article: 609 Words)