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Catholic priest with a taste for ‘self-bondage’ returned to ministry
By Tim Townsend — September 17, 2013
(RNS) Last November, the Rev. Thomas Donovan called 911to say he needed police help to free himself. Police found him wearing an orange jumpsuit and “a leather bondage-type mask with a bar in his mouth.”
Catholic bishop tries to explain how a priest ended up in ‘self-bondage’
By Tim Townsend — January 28, 2013
There are signs that a younger generation of Catholic leaders have learned lessons from the last decade and are attempting to be as open as possible when a crisis comes to their diocese. Yet in the case of a priest diagnosed with "non-sexual self-bondage," that desire for transparency may have produced a response that caused more harm than good.
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