FR. PETER MIQUELI SUSPENDED FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE
Catholic New York Article - April 2019
Catholic New York Article - April 2019
When this website was founded in February 2014, it was meant to bring attention to the issues our parish of St. Frances de Chantal had with our pastor, Fr. Peter Miqueli. Since then, there have been over 140 shared experiences, numerous news reports, and finally led to the resignation of Fr. Peter Miqueli on December 12, 2015.
We are now free of Fr. Peter Miqueli and his corruption and wrong doing and it is now a time for SFdC to resurrect and become the parish that it once was before his arrival in 2012.
It is important to not forget what occurred here at our parish. This website will stay in order to display our battle with Fr. Miqueli, the Archdiocese of New York, and Cardinal Dolan and to the extent and efforts that we went through to try to be heard and helped.
If more information to our eventful saga is uncovered or revealed, this website will continue to notify of any updates.
We are now free of Fr. Peter Miqueli and his corruption and wrong doing and it is now a time for SFdC to resurrect and become the parish that it once was before his arrival in 2012.
It is important to not forget what occurred here at our parish. This website will stay in order to display our battle with Fr. Miqueli, the Archdiocese of New York, and Cardinal Dolan and to the extent and efforts that we went through to try to be heard and helped.
If more information to our eventful saga is uncovered or revealed, this website will continue to notify of any updates.
FR. PETER MIQUELI STEPPED DOWN AS THE PASTOR OF ST. FRANCES DE CHANTAL
In October, 2012, Fr. Peter A. Miqueli became the new pastor at St. Frances de Chantal in Throggs Neck in the Bronx, NY. Since day one of his arrival, everything has gone downhill. From his bad attitude to his constant arrogance, this man is solely ruining one of the great Catholic parishes in the Bronx.
Coming from a parish on Roosevelt Island, he has no skills (both intellectual and sociable) to be able to run this parish in Throggs Neck. Not only does he do nothing himself, but he forces his work upon all of the employees. He does this without any gratitude and even has the audacity to call himself the "king of St. Frances."
Now, as over three years have already past, it is time to end this madness.
To provide an extensive, and ever growing list of problems with Fr. Miqueli and reasons why he should be removed:
And, he is in a relationship with a man named Keith Crist.
Keith Crist is an extremely shady man who has been known for threatening people and participating in money scandals. This man has been seen at St. Frances on multiple accounts, many times walking into the rectory with Fr. Miqueli and the bag of collection money (which is not sealed, locked, or secured in any way).
Keith accompanied Fr. Miqueli on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in March, 2014.
The two also have their names on a house in Brick, New Jersey
FR. PETER MIQUELI SHOULD NEVER BE TRUSTED.
He believes that he has "done so much for this parish."
Yet in reality, he has done NOTHING.
Is Fr. Miqueli really the person who should be running our parish? If any of this has disturbed you, let the Archdiocese know. Please, share your concerns with Bishop Walsh, Msgr. Graham, and Cardinal Dolan, or any one else who is willing to listen.
If you have information about Fr. Miqueli that is essential to hastening his removal, please do not keep silent! No matter if you attend mass every day, or only go on Christmas and Easter, no one should be subjected to the disgrace and evil that he brings to this great parish. He will ruin this parish, unless we stop him.
This is our parish and we cannot let him destroy it.
Coming from a parish on Roosevelt Island, he has no skills (both intellectual and sociable) to be able to run this parish in Throggs Neck. Not only does he do nothing himself, but he forces his work upon all of the employees. He does this without any gratitude and even has the audacity to call himself the "king of St. Frances."
Now, as over three years have already past, it is time to end this madness.
To provide an extensive, and ever growing list of problems with Fr. Miqueli and reasons why he should be removed:
- He has stolen money from altar servers.
- He has yelled at both children and adults in confession.
- He does not pay his employees correctly and on time.
- He will lie to someone's face, and deny it moments later.
- He is the reason kids no longer want to altar serve and lector anymore.
- He is never in the parish; he is always on vacation.
- He is always getting "sick" with apparent ailments such as phenomena.
- He has a shady doctor friend who he has made involved with the parish.
- He has gotten rid of the parish council.
- He has gotten rid of the parish trustees.
- He attempts to get rid of people he does not like.
- He spreads lies and rumors about people he does not like.
- He has publicly wished in a homily that certain people do not return to the church.
- He has no support from long standing members of the parish.
- He takes advantage of the other priests.
- He has friends in the Archdiocese who protect him.
- He has made no efforts in upkeep of the church.
- He turned off all security cameras in the church.
- He does not care at all about the school.
- He never visits the school.
- He will not trust anyone but himself with money.
- He only cares about money.
- He carries the money from the church to the rectory in an open, unsealed bag.
- He is the only one allowed to handle the money from mass collections.
- He processes collection money in his bedroom.
- He is not reporting or accounting the collection money.
- He inflates the collection amount in the bulletins each weekend.
- He lies about the financial state of the parish.
- He creates second collections to take more money from parishioners.
- He has an established history of diverting parish money to his personal bank account.
- He has stopped sending out envelopes to parishioners if they do not donate enough.
- He has never presented a budget in the time he has been here.
- He refused an Archdiocesan audit of the parish finances.
- He has not carried out any of the directives issued by the Cardinal.
- He expects everyone to do what he says, when he says it, because he's the pastor.
- He will not take no for an answer.
- He manipulates people to get what he wants.
- He refuses to negotiate anything.
- He makes up an excuse for everything.
- He has no respect for anything anyone does for the parish.
- He attempts to hide and defend his evil through his homilies and in the bulletin.
- He writes childish excerpts in the bulletin where he calls parishioners "malcontents."
- He is inappropriate.
- He is a hypocrite.
- He is ungrateful.
- He is arrogant.
- He is rude.
- He is a liar.
And, he is in a relationship with a man named Keith Crist.
Keith Crist is an extremely shady man who has been known for threatening people and participating in money scandals. This man has been seen at St. Frances on multiple accounts, many times walking into the rectory with Fr. Miqueli and the bag of collection money (which is not sealed, locked, or secured in any way).
Keith accompanied Fr. Miqueli on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in March, 2014.
The two also have their names on a house in Brick, New Jersey
FR. PETER MIQUELI SHOULD NEVER BE TRUSTED.
He believes that he has "done so much for this parish."
Yet in reality, he has done NOTHING.
Is Fr. Miqueli really the person who should be running our parish? If any of this has disturbed you, let the Archdiocese know. Please, share your concerns with Bishop Walsh, Msgr. Graham, and Cardinal Dolan, or any one else who is willing to listen.
If you have information about Fr. Miqueli that is essential to hastening his removal, please do not keep silent! No matter if you attend mass every day, or only go on Christmas and Easter, no one should be subjected to the disgrace and evil that he brings to this great parish. He will ruin this parish, unless we stop him.
This is our parish and we cannot let him destroy it.
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