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...Those may have been priests who molested 17-, 18-, 16-year-olds. Do you consider a priest with a 17-year-old a pedophile?” Flynn asked...
...important than the apology itself, Law has taken action to prevent these systemic problems from happening again. Not only has he been in full cooperation with secular officials, but he also effectively volunteered more information than would even be warranted under Massachusetts statutes of limitation. Law has suspended every priest who has ever come under a hint of suspicion over the past 30 years, even at the risk of being accused of a “witch hunt” by some Catholics, as was the case with Fr. D. George Spagnolia earlier this month. Law discarded the program...
...left the rectory feeling that I had never had such a candid and intimate conversation with a priest. Did I believe Father Spagnolia? The fact that he was extremely well thought of in Lowell carried weight with me. I grew up in Lowell's principal suburb, Chelmsford, mowing the local church lawn in summer for extra money, going on Catholic Youth Organization ski trips with Father Coughlin in winter. I knew of famous St. Patrick's, which rises like a beacon in the city's poorest section, a tenement-filled neighborhood called the Acre. On the cold but sunny Thursday...
...lawyer and the founder and director of the Victim Advocacy & Research Group in Boston, and it was her client, who she says is now a 45-year-old father and "a very respectable, responsible, highly regarded citizen," who brought the allegation against Father Spagnolia. She feels the Lowell priest's campaign has, if anything, damaged the search for justice. "By making himself the poster boy for false accusations, he did a great disservice to the very course he professed to be forwarding," she said Friday after Father Spagnolia's lie was revealed in the Globe...
...think he's done wonderful things for that parish, and what he did during the years he wasn't a priest is his own personal business," said Mike Donahue, another friend of mine. Donahue, from an old, prominent Lowell family, still lives in the city and manages a local country club. "Why he lied about being gay--he's probably embarrassed about it. Lowell's a blue-collar mill city, and that stuff still doesn't go down well with some people here. As for whether the allegation's true, I'm with Spags. Geoghan had 60 kids going, 'This...