Father Bernard Healy

That he's a fugitive, wanted on financial and violent crimes.

I said, okay, I'll come up with some convenient excuse, which I did.

Correct. I had to go to confession after all that, yes.

I got a lot of emails that were kind of full of rage, upset, and anger at me. It was clear it was somebody who was very angry.

In a sense, yes. It's the first time in my life, in my priesthood, that somebody has tried to have a funeral for somebody who's not dead.

He said we believe he's faked his own death, that he's in Europe.

Shortly afterwards, I got a call from the state police.

She said she was in Switzerland. He had died. She asked if she could have a memorial mass here at Our Lady of Mercy.

Yeah, it's a memorial mass. I said, we have memorial masses for anybody.

And after reading that biography, you would think that he was a cross between Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela.

Shortly afterwards, I got a call from the state police. We'd ask you not to have the mask because Nicholas is not dead.

They said, well, we believe he's faked his own death, that he's in Europe.