A Catholic priest already facing criminal sexual-assault charges in a Texas has been re-arrested and jailed in lieu of $700,000 bail in Dallas County after allegedly seeking a contract hit on the claimed victim, who is also a witness in a related civil case.
Father John Fiala, 52, has now been charged with solicitation to commit capital murder in addition to aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to CNN and the San Antonio Express-News.
An Associated Press article provides additional details.
The articles say Fiala is accused of approaching a neighbor with an offer to kill the unidentified teen. However, the neighbor reportedly blew the whistle and the priest then allegedly offered $5,000 to an undercover agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety for the contract hit on the youth, who is now 18.
I thought the worst priest story I would ever see was the one where the Priest with the potato in his bottom claimed he fell on it while hanging curtains in the nude. But I think this guy even tops him.
November 24, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Corruptio optimi pessima. When the best get corrupted, he becomes the worst.
November 24, 2010 at 6:17 pm
wow- I'm afraid that he is so deep in his sin…he probably will go to hell…we had better pray for him
November 24, 2010 at 6:18 pm
True. "For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
I suppose if you're already going to hell, why not try and get the best seat in the house?
November 24, 2010 at 9:07 pm
"I thought the worst priest story I would ever see was the one where the Priest with the potato in his bottom claimed he fell on it while hanging curtains in the nude. But I think this guy even tops him."
I work in an O.R. HIPPA prevents me from posting sooooooooo many stories.
November 24, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Can get any worse?
Please God put a stop!
November 24, 2010 at 11:19 pm
sad, this is fr. corapi's order
November 25, 2010 at 2:08 pm
if he asked the hitman to do it quickly rather than slowly, this might be a first step towards a more humane vision of life.
November 25, 2010 at 8:40 pm
There are icky people in every place . . . it's the way life is when we have the choice to rule over sin or fester in it. God have mercy on this priest and this priests' victims. May the law put this cruel dude behind bars, though.
November 26, 2010 at 12:21 am
A hospital trust spokeswoman in Sheffield said: "Like all busy hospitals we do see some unusual accidents.
"But our staff deal with them in a discreet, professional and kind way."
If this is true, how did the story end up in the newpaper? I'd hate to see what the spokeswoman calls indiscreet, unprofessional and unkind. Terentia
November 26, 2010 at 6:44 am
Where do we get these people?
November 27, 2010 at 9:37 pm
if he asked the hitman to do it quickly rather than slowly, this might be a first step towards a more humane vision of life.
Bravo! Bravissimo!!
How long will it take this man's bishop to seek immediate laitization? How long before the plump bureaucrats in the Vatican will act on it?