Thursday, September 11, 2003

Here in Pittsburgh they just re-filed involuntary manslaughter charges against Henry Krawczyk. He is the priest accused of giving alcohol to the Pitt football player who later died when he fell through the church ceiling.

He was the assistant priest for my parish when I was a teenager. Fr. Hank used to hang out with the altar boys on Friday and Saturday nights driving around in his car and drinking beer. One of the altar boys told me that someone had left a house in their will to Fr. Hank and he used to take them there to drink beer and smoke weed. A few years after I graduated from high school a good friend told me that he was once out drinking with Fr. Hank and he turned around to see Fr. Hank hand him a hard-core gay porn magazine. My friend was really freaked out by this and told his dad, who in turn told the head parish priest. I am taking a guess at this but I believe it was at this point that he was transferred from our parish to another. This was a long time ago, in the mid 80's, which means Fr. Hank has been bouncing around from church to church for over 15 years.

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