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...Father Spags" was already a hero in Lowell, but never more so than early last week when he took on Cardinal Law's plan for solving a child-abuse crisis that was gruesomely revealed during the recent trial and conviction of defrocked priest John Geoghan, who was accused of molesting scores of boys in the 1980s. The week in Lowell started on a high but ended on a heartbreak. By Friday, Father Spagnolia was forced to admit that he had lied about parts of his sexual past. And his supporters were forced to reckon with a new sense of abandonment...
...Archdiocese of Boston are currently embroiled in a controversy over allegations that, over a period of decades, they did not take action after learning that parish priests were sexually abusing children. Former priest John Geoghan, who was sentenced Feb. 21 to nine to 10 years in prison for one count of child molestation, is accused of abusing at least 130 more children during his 30 years in the archdiocese...
...workshops that were open to anyone in the University. There was a huge range of people, from this first-year woman who said she was there because she was terrified that she wouldn’t be able to continue writing now that she was at college to a priest in his 60s who was a visiting fellow at the Divinity School...
Members of the clergy acknowledge that divorce ceremonies are not for everyone. "Ideally," says Father Malcolm Boyd, 78, an Episcopal priest who has performed half a dozen divorce ceremonies for people of various faiths, "there should be two people trying to be honest, getting on with their lives and not wanting to harbor resentment. This could be an empty ritual without those elements...
...this comes in the wake of John J. Geoghan, a now-defrocked priest who has been convicted of child molestation and sexual abuse and issued a sentence of nine to ten years’ imprisonment, and had been protected by Law for many years. During the course of about three decades he was moved to different, unsuspecting parishes across Greater Boston. He was transferred each time complaints began to mount from each community he “served.” In contrast, Spagnolia has vehemently professed his innocence and is publicly supported and lauded for his courage by hundreds...