CHRISTIAN PRIEST TO BE TRIED FOR EMBEZZLING $800,000

Trial date set for priest charged with embezzlement

The buttociated Press boston.com Friday, May 19, 2006

Barnstable, Mbutt. - A priest charged with embezzling more than $800,000 from two Cape Cod churches will go to trial on July 31, authorities say.

Attorneys for the Rev. Bernard Kelly and prosecutors agreed on the date at a brief meeting in Barnstable Superior Court on Friday morning.

Kelly is charged with using funds from St. Joseph's parish in Falmouth and Our Lady of Lourdes in Wellfleet for his personal use.

The Diocese of Fall River estimated that Kelly misused more than $800,000 of church funds.

The diocese sued Kelly, and the sides agreed to a $1.3 million settlement last year. But Kelly so far has been unable to sell his lavish home in the Cummaquid section of Barnstable to raise money to play for the settlement.

The diocese, which has a lien on the home, will foreclose if the house is not sold.

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