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(He) unleashed a constant stream of rude, crude ... remarks including the word f--- in almost every sentence.

- BY BARBARA ROSS and LARRY McSHANE The Rev. Michael Reilly, principal of St. Joseph by-theSea High School on Staten Island, and “henchmen” Greg Manos and Robert Richard are targets of suit. bross@nydailynew­s.com

THIS MAN OF God raised holy hell with his ungodly curses.

A stunning new lawsuit accuses a trashtalki­ng Staten Island priest and principal of raining a steady spew of obscenitie­s, insults and slurs on terrified staffers at St. Joseph bythe-Sea High School.

Women were “b----es” or “tw-ts,” gays were “f-gs,” and certain teachers were “d--heads” to the coarse man of the cloth. The Rev. Michael Reilly once even threatened to boot a black man “back to the jungle,” and to kick a cancer patient “to the f---ing curb.”

In fact, the suit charged the raunchy reverend appeared incapable of expressing a single thought without dropping an F-bomb — or 10.

Reilly “unleashed a constant stream of rude, crude and inappropri­ate remarks including saying the word f--- in almost every sentence in some form,” according to the 12-page Manhattan Supreme Court filing.

The lawsuit charges Reilly, aided by two of his subordinat­es at St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School, created a hostile work environmen­t, tried to fire older teachers — and practiced religious discrimina­tion against Catholic employees.

The trio even spread bogus rumors that one of the plaintiffs was a pedophile, according to court papers.

The “rude, crude and abusive language and actions committed by Father Reilly . . . and condoned by the archdioces­e and (Timothy) Cardinal Dolan are offensive to the tenets of (plaintiffs’) religious beliefs,” the suit charged.

“These crude and vulgar statements were intended to discrimina­te against the plaintiffs because of their devout Roman Catholic faith.”

Named along with Reilly were his supposed “henchmen” — vice principal Robert Richard and dean of men Greg Manos.

“This petty tyrant gets away with it because he gets backed up by the archdioces­e,” said Michael Dowd, attorney for plaintiffs Maureen Smith, Lawrence Boliak and Thomas Rodes. The latter two are retired cops.

The Archdioces­e of New York, in a statement, said “the genesis for this lawsuit” came last fall when Boliak allegedly pulled down the pants of a male former student on school grounds.

Boliak said he tugged at the young man’s shorts while trying to restrain the former student from fighting with Manos.

Boliak, 67, is under a doctor’s care for stress.

He charges that Reilly, the school, the archdioces­e and Dolan wrongly branded him a pedophile. The lawsuit also charged the archdioces­e ignored complaints made about Reilly just six months ago.

Nobody ever called Boliak a pedophile, said archdioces­e spokesman Joe Zwilling — adding the charges of crude and abusive language were “absurd and strongly denied by Father Reilly and his staff.”

But the lawsuit described an instance where Reilly blasted a sick, elderly staffer in vile terms: “F--- crusty, she’s a vodka-s--tting b---h that we don’t need.”

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