A Scottish Catholic priest serving a ten month jail sentence for
embezzling £100,000 of church money to fund an alleged gambling problem
has apparently asked that Pope Francis allow him to quit the clergy.
Fr Graeme Bell was parish priest of Our Lady Star of the Sea church, known locally as St Mary's, in Saltcoats before being convicted of stealing from the Ayrshire parish between March and May 2015 after admitting to an online gambling problem.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/scottish.priest.who.embezzled.100000.wants.pope.to.release.him.from.priesthood/90901.htm
Fr Graeme Bell was parish priest of Our Lady Star of the Sea church, known locally as St Mary's, in Saltcoats before being convicted of stealing from the Ayrshire parish between March and May 2015 after admitting to an online gambling problem.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/scottish.priest.who.embezzled.100000.wants.pope.to.release.him.from.priesthood/90901.htm
