"Three priests in the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi were removed from ministry, and one was incarcerated, because they “were credibly accused of sexual misconduct of minors,” the Diocese announced Thursday.
The Diocese identified them as former priests Jose Vazquez Morales, Jerome J. Axton and Vincent The Quang Nguyen. In all three cases, the Diocese notified the District Attorney’s Office, a news release said.
Morales’ name came as no surprise. He was sentenced to prison for 10 years in 2016 for the sexual abuse of a 10-year-old boy in Jones County. Vazquez at the time was pastor at St. Francis Xavier in Wiggins and St. Lucy Mission in Lucedale. Before that, he was a parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception in Laurel and Sacred Heart in Hattiesburg." SunHerald
Morales’ name came as no surprise. He was sentenced to prison for 10 years in 2016 for the sexual abuse of a 10-year-old boy in Jones County. Vazquez at the time was pastor at St. Francis Xavier in Wiggins and St. Lucy Mission in Lucedale. Before that, he was a parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception in Laurel and Sacred Heart in Hattiesburg." SunHerald