Priest Gets New Post; Said Santa Was Dead
Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. —
A Catholic priest who last year told Sunday school children that Santa Claus was dead has been reassigned, officials of a Roman Catholic diocese said. They said Monday they did not know where he is now.
Parents said young children left in tears after Father Romano Ferraro told a group in December, 1986, that St. Nicholas, the 4th-Century bishop, was dead and so was Santa Claus.
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