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You know it’s Texas when even Catholic Priests pack heat and put out contracts.

A Catholic priest, facing criminal charges and a lawsuit alleging that he sexually abused a teenage boy, is now charged with attempting to hire someone to kill the youth, authorities said Tuesday.

The Rev. John M. Fiala was in the Dallas County, Texas, jail on Tuesday, charged with one count of criminal solicitation to commit capital murder, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety and the jail’s website. He also is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. His bail totals $700,000.

As most of you know, Juanita gets into fights with the local Catholic priests around here at least twice a year, and in a good year, several more times.  It does not shock her that a priest thinks he can get away with murder.

“Get a good look at that picture,” she says, “because odds are that the church will bail him out and move him to a small parish outside of Chicago.”

The teen, after struggling with the abuse, told a school counselor, who notified authorities, Rhodes said. He filed suit in April against Fiala, as well as the archdioceses of San Antonio, Texas, and Omaha, Nebraska — where Fiala was before Texas — and Fiala’s religious order, the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, the attorney said.

The suit claims that all three covered up Fiala’s record of abuse. All three have denied doing so, according to the San Antonio, Texas, Express-News. When former San Antonio Archbishop Jose Gomez and the religious order learned of the police investigation into Fiala’s relationship with the teen, he was removed from active ministry in October 2008, the newspaper reported.

“Children in the Catholic church are walking into a lion’s den with pork chops in their pockets,” Juanita claims.  “In the hereafter, I hope these priests have to look up to see the bottom of hell.”