Monsignor Eugene V. Clark, once secretary to Francis Cardinal Spellman, and spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for many years, and until he resigned a few days ago Rector of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, has been named as co-respondent in a divorce petition filed by his longtime personal secretary’s husband. She is 33 years Clark’s junior.
You can read about it here, as long as you don’t mind registering with the New York Times.
Clark has been on record as blaming the breakdown of priestly morality to the fact that seminaries have been admitting homosexual students. Obviously, this does not apply in his case.
I met Clark when I was a RC seminarian in New York, and he always seemed too slick for his own good.
There was a joke doing the rounds about him then.
Radio announcer: “And now I’d like to introduce Monsignor Eugene V. Clark, the spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, who will give the Church’s position on a range of modern social and political situations.”
Clark (shouts): “NO!”
Radio announcer: “Thank you, Monsignor Clark.”
The good news for Monsignor Clark is that he is 79, she is 46, and they’re still at it. It gives hope to us all.
And for those who are wondering, the Archdiocesan health plan (I have been told by friends who are covered by it) does not cover the costs of Viagra.
I see the sketch with Michael Palin as the radio guy and John Cleese as Monsignieur.
Clark has been on record as blaming the breakdown of priestly morality to the fact that seminaries have been admitting homosexual students. Obviously, this does not apply in his case.
You never know. He could have been, dunno, corrupted by just having to think of such distasteful matters as homosexuals in his seminaries. Or by the atmosphere they exude. Or something.
Oddly enough, the time I was in the Seminary (1976-1978) was around the period in which the Pythons were active.
Perhaps we could get the Spanish Inquisition into it.