Spotlight: What Happened to Fr. Minkler?

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by Christine Niles • ChurchMilitant.com • December 8, 2022

Suicide — or murder?

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On Feb. 13, 2004, Fr. John Minkler was called into a private — and tense — meeting with Bp. Howard Hubbard in the diocese of Albany, New York. Two days later, Minkler would be dead.

In this first-ever in-depth investigation into the death of the whistleblower priest, Christine Niles tries to answer the question: What happened to Fr. Minkler?

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