What has happened in the Tampa Bay area?
The Rev. Richard Allen, pastor of St. Matthew Catholic Church in Largo, left the priesthood Friday after a St. Petersburg man reported to police that Allen had fondled him when he was an adolescent 30 years ago. The Rev. Vincent Orlando was fired last week as a teacher from Jesuit High School in Tampa after he was accused of sexual misconduct with a minor 17 years ago in Houston. A former Jesuit principal, the Rev. Thomas Naughton, was removed earlier this month as a Catholic priest in Orange County, California. Naughton had been accused of sexual misconduct with a youth at Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas in 1978. Robert Schaeufele, pastor at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Pasco County, left the priesthood this month after being accused of sexual misconduct with a minor during the 1970s. Diocesan officials were named in a lawsuit that accuses Brother William Burke of repeatedly molesting a 14-year-old student in 1987 at Mary Help of Christians School in Hillsb
