Here is the response from the Diocese of Orlando regarding my inquiry about Nicholas Cudemo

Dear Ms. Campbell,
Nicholas Cudemo was removed from the clerical state and is not serving as a priest in the Diocese of Orlando. He is believed to be residing in Orlando. We have informed the appropriate people of this information; that he was accused of child sexual abuse; and that he is not to engage in any parish ministry.

It is not against the law for him to reside in Orlando. It is against our policy for him to serve in parish ministry in the Diocese of Orlando.

Carol Brinati
Director of Communications
Diocese of Orlando

Here is my original e-mail

I was reading a story about Priests and sexual abuse in the Philadelpia Inquirer. I ran across this...

Father Cudemo. "Father Nicholas V. Cudemo, ordained in 1963, was described to the Grand Jury as 'one of the sickest people I ever knew' by Monsignor James E. Molloy, Cardinal Bevilacqua's vicar for administration. Father Cudemo raped an 11-year-old girl, molested a fifth grader in the confessional, invoked God to seduce and shame his victims, and maintained sexually abusive relationships simultaneously with several girls from the Catholic school where he was a teacher. His own family sued him for molesting a cousin.

"Yet, with serious allegations against the priest on record, Cardinal Bevilacqua twice promoted him to serve as pastor of Philadelphia parishes. Only after victims threatened to name the Cardinal and the Archdiocese in a lawsuit was Fr. Cudemo removed from his pastorate." He was permitted to retire in good standing in 1997 and moved to Orlando, Fla.

Have you ever hear of this man? Is he here in Orlando? Is he working for the Diocese? Does he have access to children?


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