Witness: Catholic leaders feared Feit scandal could affect JFKs bid for president

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Witness-Catholic-leaders-feared-Feit-scandal-12407580.php

EDINBURG — The Hidalgo County sheriff advised Catholic Church officials in 1960 to hire a private investigator to undermine the investigation into John Feit, the priest suspected of murdering a beauty queen, to avoid a scandal that could rock the church and threaten the chances of John F. Kennedy, the Catholic who was running for president, witnesses testified Tuesday.

Feit, now 85, is on trial for the murder of Irene Garza, a 25-year-old elementary school teacher and former beauty queen killed during Holy Week in 1960. He was 27 at the time.

An official letter dated October 1, 1960, written by Father Joseph Pawlicki, pastor of a church in Georgetown near Austin, to Father Lawrence J. Seidel, provincial of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Southern Province, urged church officials to avoid a public scandal.

“I believe I found some element in every paragraph that I found very unusual, that pointed to an attempt to cover this up, to minimize the circumstances …to make it go away,” testified Father Thomas Doyle, 73, a priest and expert on sexual abuse, especially within the Catholic Church.

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