The pastor who spread his bingo wings and took to the sky (and got burnt)
The song ‘Summertime’ is great for singing under the shower:
‘So hush little baby
Don’t you cry
One of these mornings
You’re going to rise up singing
You’ll spread your bingo wings
And take to the sky’
But till that morning you might have a hard time explaining what you did, so it might be wise to leave the phone off the hook:
PDT White Plains, N.Y. (AP) — A New York Roman Catholic Church official says the long-serving pastor of a suburban parish is under investigation for allegedly using church money to feed a gambling habit.
The chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York says the Rev. Patrick Dunne of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in White Plains took a significant amount of church money and has been permanently removed from the parish.
The chancellor, Monsignor William Belford, told members of the parish Sunday that the Westchester County district attorney’s office is investigating.
There was no immediate comment Sunday from the priest. His home telephone mailbox was not accepting messages Sunday.
Anyway, the long-serving and soon to be long-suffering pastor may take comfort in the knowledge that Jesus would not have minded all that much. The Good Book states that the Son of Man did have it in for the money changers in the temple but It keeps reassuringly schtumm about throwing it away on dubious horses or ill-tempered bingo cards.
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