1,600 Mourn Slain Priest in Maryland
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BOWIE, Md. — More than 1,600 mourners paid their last respects Tuesday to a priest who was stabbed to death last week in the rectory of his church.
“We gather in sorrow and we gather in hope,” Cardinal James Hickey, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Washington, said at the funeral of Monsignor Thomas M. Wells.
Wells, 56, was found in the bedroom of his home adjacent to Mother Seton Catholic Church in Germantown, Md., a Washington suburb. Police have said he was beaten and stabbed to death. The house was ransacked.
Police have made no arrests and have not named any suspects.
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