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A California Catholic priest is assigned to work with prisons after being caught using a gay dating Web site:
FRESNO, Calif. A Catholic priest who was removed from a Merced church after he reportedly used a gay dating Web site has been assigned to work with prisons.
Church officials say the Reverend Jean-Michael Lastiri will be director of detention ministry in the eight-county Diocese of Fresno.Bishop John Steinbock removed Lastiri from the Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church in Merced last year and said he was sending him to a treatment center in Maryland because of indications Lastiri had used a totally inappropriate Web page and chat room.
Lastiri said he had only entertained fantasies on the Internet and hadn’t engaged in any inappropriate sexual activity.
He should have just chatted up a twelve-year-old.
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