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Bad Bishop Gets Place in the Sun

By AAN Staff
march 24, 2003  10:45 am
Bad Bishop Gets Place in the Sun
In today's Catholic Church, you can stick a diocese with $16 million in debt and sexually exploit one of your employees -- and still manage to get a gig soaking up sun in Arizona. As SF Weekly staff writer Ron Russell reports, G. Patrick Ziemann, the former bishop of Santa Rosa, Calif., once forced a young priest to wear a beeper so he could summon him for oral sex. Now, thanks to friends in high places within the church, Ziemann's a regular on the Tucson party circuit -- and isn't ruling out one day heading another diocese
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