Exit of popular priest has Hispanics wondering; Bilingual leader reinvigorated parish, then fell victim to an internal struggle.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: July 26, 2000| Author: Grow, Doug | Copyright information

One of the good guys has left the Twin Cities, leaving a void that perhaps can't be filled.

The Rev. Ed Leahy, a priest of Irish ancestry who speaks Spanish as fluently as English, has stepped down from his position as the assistant priest at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in south Minneapolis.

In just four years, Leahy transformed Holy Rosary from a dying neighborhood church into a robust center for Minneapolis' fast-growing Hispanic population. Along the way, h...

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