Deputy Rector of US Seminary in Rome Steps Down Amid Accusations Of Homosexuality
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His resignation comes after multiple allegations of homosexual harassment and misconduct toward seminarians under his authority.
Park was ordained a priest for Washington Archdiocese by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and later served as the secretary to disgraced Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
He relinquished his post after Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, another highly-placed U.S. cleric who served at the NAC, resigned as General Secretary of the US Bishops' Conference amid reports of alleged serial homosexual misconduct.
Father Gerald Fitzgerald (+1969), who ran a treatment center for homosexual priests in New Mexico, stated that when he was ordained 43 years ago, homosexuality was an unknown rarity but that 1964 "it is rampant among priests".
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