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To: epicure who wrote (8398)	7/12/2000 3:14:51 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9127

I think God made him do it<g> Reliable sources indicate that Robert Barry goes to the church of this servant of God<ggg> OT:I saw the movie Croupier, very good. Wednesday July 12 1:30 PM ET Priest Nabbed in Miami Prostitution Sting By Cara Buckley MIAMI (Reuters) - A prominent Roman Catholic priest was netted in a prostitution sting last week, the latest in a series of high profile officials arrested in an area of Miami known as a haven for streetwalkers, police said Wednesday. Father Patrick O'Neill, 60, a high-ranking priest in the Archdiocese of Miami and a former university president, was arrested July 5 and charged with soliciting sex after he pulled his Mercedes to a stop on a downtown street and propositioned a male undercover police officer, police said. ``He offered $100 in exchange for some sexual fondling,'' Miami Police spokesman Delrish Moss said. O'Neill was arrested for a misdemeanor but not taken into custody because he agreed to appear on his own recognizance. ``Father O'Neill is confident that once all of the facts and circumstances surrounding this incident are fully revealed, his name will be cleared and he will return to serving the community and continue on his own life's work,'' O'Neill's lawyer William Dean said in a prepared statement. O'Neill served as president of Miami's St. Thomas University, a school of 2,100, for nearly a decade in the 1980s and currently heads the Archdiocese of Miami's campaign to draw lapsed Catholics back into the fold. He is also president of key local Catholic organizations including the South Florida Center for Theological Studies, the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the New Hope Charities Foundation. O'Neill was arrested on Biscayne Boulevard, one of Miami's major arteries and a hotbed for prostitution and police stings. One of the city's top-ranking police officers, Major Juan Garcia, was nabbed on the thoroughfare on June 24 after allegedly offering an undercover policewoman money for sex. Less than twelve hours later, a few dozen blocks away, a top school board official, Norman Lindeblad, who headed the Miami-Dade county office in charge of employee misconduct, allegedly attempted to solicit another undercover policewoman. Local police stage three to four prostitution stings a week, and focus their efforts on Biscayne because it is ``notorious for prostitution,'' Moss said. ``We get people from all walks of life, from all socioeconomic backgrounds and ethnicities,'' he said. ``Everyone from priests to paupers are out there.'' O'Neill is currently out of town on a previously scheduled trip, archdiocese spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta told local media. But she said the archdiocese was aware of the arrest and was ''optimistic that there will be a quick and just resolution to this incident.'' Officials at St. Thomas University could not be reached for comment. But the mood at the university was sour, according to an employee who asked to remain unnamed. ``This is not a happy thing for anybody who is Catholic-affiliated,'' the employee said.