Bishop Richard J. Malone was surprised and saddened every time he saw
an article or TV story about his handling of the priest sex abuse
scandal in his diocese, as well as when prominent leaders went to the
media to call for his resignation.
“The truth is every day, I wonder what I’ll see in the paper, or
letter to the editor, or editorial or what they put out on the
television or radio," Malone said in an interview with The Buffalo News.
"It is difficult. It is very difficult to have one’s integrity
questioned.
“That is hard for me to swallow because, I don’t mean to sound
boastful, but from my deepest moments of prayer and self-reflection, I
am a man of integrity,” he said, adding: “I’m a man who can make a
mistake and that is what I did in two cases where we had allegations of
misconduct by a priest with adults.”
Malone, without naming them, was referring in one case to the Rev.
Robert Yetter, who allegedly made unwanted sexual advances on two young
adult men. The other was the Rev. Arthur Smith, whom Malone assigned as a
cruise ship chaplain after Smith was accused of inappropriate behavior
with two men and a boy.
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