WASHINGTON - Not all accused priests spend years in limbo. Some, such as Russell Dillard, are removed immediately. Dillard, now 62, was a faith adviser to then-Washington Mayor Anthony Williams and pastor of St. Augustine's in Northwest Washington, the city's oldest black Catholic congregation, in 2002 when two sisters accused him of kissing and fondling them when they were teens. He was suspended within days of the allegations, removed from the ministry five months later and eventually defrocked. No criminal or civil charges were leveled against him. After he was defrocked, Dillard received a master's degree in social work from Catholic University and now has a job advising people trying to get health care, friends said. At one point, they said, he was engaged, but he didn't marry. Kathryn Barrett-Gaines, 45, one of the sisters who accused Dillard, said she was 'floored' to hear about his new position serving others. 'This is not some hotshot job, and he loves to be the hotshot,' she said. 'I don't think he's evil. He just doesn't have empathy, which is why he shouldn't be a priest,' said Barrett-Gaines, a history professor at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore and a member of her parish council. 'I'm just glad he's not a teacher or a doctor.' Dillard remains a practicing Catholic. He goes to post-worship coffee hour a few Sundays a month at St. Martin of Tours in Washington, parishioners there say. 'He is still well loved,' said Octavia Jackson, who was married by Dillard in 1990. 'Those who come around him, talk with him, don't have ill feelings or will about the allegations. Those who did believe [the accusations] just don't say anything.' 