Summary

A FEMALE MINISTER IS BEHIND A NUMBER OF AFFAIRS WITH ATLANTA CLERGYMEN...ONE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BROUGHT ABOUT THE RESIGNATION OF ARCHBISHOP EUGENE MARINO LAST MONTH. NOW THE CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT ANOTHER PRIEST WANTS TO RESIGN BECAUSE OF A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SAME WOMAN. SHE IS 27-YEAR-OLD VICKI R. LONG. SHE SUED THE CHURCH FOR PATERNITY PAYMENT STEMMING FROM AN ALLEGED RELATIONSHIP WITH A THIRD PRIEST. THE REV. MICHAEL WOODS OFFERED TO RESIGN SATURDAY AFTER CONFESSING TO AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH MS. LONG WHO IS A RIVERDALE LAY MINISTER.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 111306
Story Slug PRIEST LOVER
Location SANDY SPRINGS, GEORGIA
Format PGK
Date 8/4/1990
Archive Time 15:50
TRT 2:30
Supers SANDY SPRINGS, GA REV. PETER DORA, (READING REV. WOODS’ LETTER) JOHN MCKNIGHT, REPORTING CAROL WOOD, ST. JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH BEN SPALDING, ST. JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Video Description PRIEST READING LETTER, CHURCH EXTERIOR, GRAPHIC W/PHONER, STAND-UP
Description A FEMALE MINISTER IS BEHIND A NUMBER OF AFFAIRS WITH ATLANTA CLERGYMEN...ONE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BROUGHT ABOUT THE RESIGNATION OF ARCHBISHOP EUGENE MARINO LAST MONTH. NOW THE CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT ANOTHER PRIEST WANTS TO RESIGN BECAUSE OF A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SAME WOMAN. SHE IS 27-YEAR-OLD VICKI R. LONG. SHE SUED THE CHURCH FOR PATERNITY PAYMENT STEMMING FROM AN ALLEGED RELATIONSHIP WITH A THIRD PRIEST. THE REV. MICHAEL WOODS OFFERED TO RESIGN SATURDAY AFTER CONFESSING TO AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH MS. LONG WHO IS A RIVERDALE LAY MINISTER.
Script LEAD: THE SCANDAL THAT HAS ROCKED THE CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA HAS CLAIMED ANOTHER VICTIM. FATHER JAMES WOODS, PASTOR OF ONE OF ATLANTA’S LARGEST CATHOLIC CHURCHES OFFERED HIS RESIGNATION YESTERDAY. FATHER WOODS ADMITTED HE HAD BEEN INTIMATELY INVOLVED WITH THE LADY MENTIONED IN THE ARCHBISHOP MARINO AFFAIR. JOHN MCKNIGHT HAS THE STORY.
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