The Nation - News from Sept. 4, 1989

An unidentified 28-year-old man was quoted by the Washington Post as saying he had repeated homosexual relations with dissident black Catholic priest Father George A. Stallings Jr. when he served as an altar boy 12 years ago. The Post quoted the priest, when asked for comment by its reporter, as saying only: “Sir, do your job. I have no comment.” But in addressing his congregation, Stallings said the newspaper was preparing an article and that “when you read in the newspaper or see on the television some story that they ain’t got no evidence and they’re trying to say they do, let me tell you something, church, they ain’t got no truth.” Washington, D.C., Cardinal James A. Hickey, who suspended Stallings in July after the priest formed a separate African-American congregation, would not comment.