A priest down in south Florida named in a suit alleging abuse 2 decades ago is removed.

One of the two accused priests, Gustavo Miyares, was the long-standing pastor of Immaculate Conception parish in Hialeah. He resigned Oct. 6, the same day archdiocesan officials confronted him with the allegations, said archdiocesan spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta.

She called the allegations against the 59-year-old Miyares "credible."

Archdiocesan officials received a letter outlining the allegations Oct. 4 and phoned the alleged victim within an hour, Agosta said. An archdiocesan official flew to his hometown to meet him and his wife and to offer psychological and spiritual counseling. In his letter and in the face-to-face meeting, the man made no demands and did not mention any plans to sue the archdiocese. Agosta said there was no warning of the lawsuit before she heard about it Tuesday.

More specific accusations alleging a diocesan coverup

And to turn to the other SoFL scandal du jour: Mark Foley has supposedly told the Miami Archdiocese who his abuser was, and another abusing former cleric says he knows who it is:

"I used to take altar boys from my parishes on boating trips," Romero says. "We’d go up the St. Lucie River to the lake and camp out there. We had fun.

"It wasn’t sexual," said Romero, who remembers the pictures that Callahan found. "That trip was in 1970 or ’71. There’s nothing wrong. The boys wanted to skinny-dip, and to make them feel at ease, I skinny-dipped, too. I have a lot of pictures like that."

Bring Foley up again, and Romero gets mad.

"Don’t even try to pin that one on me!" he said. "I’ve been smeared enough. Mark Foley is not in any of those pictures."

But quickly Romero adds he has talked to the man who allegedly abused the future Republican star.

"I know who did it," said Romero, a world-renown miniature-boat builder who now, believe it or not, has been hosting Vietnamese foreign exchange high schoolers in his double-wide. "But I can’t say. Priests are not allowed to break the sacred seal of confession!"

And….who’s in charge of that exchange program?

But now, for the good news. From a reader:

Florida’s Respect Life Conference held in Palm Beach Gardens was a huge success. Of the 450 people in attendance from around the state, a third were under 35. I can’t tell you how many college kids I saw. 25 came, I know, from Florida State. On Fri. even!

Fr. Pavone said from his vantage point of criss-crossing the country, that what we see at the March for Life – an enormous number of young people – is indicative of what is happening to the pro-life movement as a whole. It is getting younger and younger.

A seminarian came up to me who used to pray at the local abortion mill and said he had some guys with him and they wanted to start going. There was a great representation of seminarians from St. Vincent De Paul and they invited us to mass/lunch on Wed. when they are open to the public.

I will also add that the young people’s choir at the closing Sunday liturgy was the Life Teen Choir from St. Ignatius, the Cathedral. I usually cringe at such music, but they sang with such sincerity and not like show-man, it was quite inspiring. More inspiring was the great sense of unity and of reverence for our Lord, the Eucharist and human life that permeated the Mass and the congregation. Truly heartfelt, and like Flannery, I’m not the sentimental type.