NEW YORK (RNS) The principal of a Catholic grade school in the Bronx
that serves mainly black and Latino students has been fired after his
racially charged views about minorities made headlines, and the priest
who hired him apologized for a "mistake in judgment."
The Archdiocese of New York announced Tuesday that the pastor, the
Rev. Eric Rapaglia, had dismissed the principal, Frank Borzellieri, 48,
two days after The Daily News published a story about Borzellieri's ties
to a white supremacist group and his voluminous writings on racial
issues.
Those writings included efforts to ban a biography on the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. and a 2004 book in which he says growing black
and Hispanic populations in America will lead to a "New Dark Age."
