Article: Priest blames exit on bishop.(News)

Byline: Marie Szaniszlo

The popular and controversial Rev. Walter Cuenin bid Our Lady Help of Christians in Newton farewell yesterday, making the shocking charge from the pulpit that Boston Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley had forced his resignation - by alleging that the car the congregation leased for Cuenin's use and the monthly stipend they paid him for the last 12 years violate archdiocesan policy.

The charges so angered parishioners that, in a highly unusual move, their own finance council signed a statement saying that the council itself had recommended leasing the car, that the parish had paid priests a stipend before Cuenin even arrived in 1993 and ...

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