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...Rev. Michael Shanahan is struggling to find the Spanish word for pedophilia. First, he ad libs, referring in Spanish to the "crimes of the priests." Then, seeing the rows of blank faces, he resorts to saying pedophilia with a Spanish accent--which turns out to be right. A white Roman Catholic priest of Irish descent ministering to a mostly Hispanic congregation, Shanahan, along with his flock, is the picture of the Roman Catholic Church's future in the U.S. For a year and a half, he has been the only full-time pastor for the 600 families, most of them...
...will be parceled out to the 86 Geoghan victims on a sliding scale of severity: more for rape, less for a flash of nudity. Yet the cash doesn't go far. In 1992 David Gagnon, 37, quietly settled his suit for three years of sexual molestation by the Rev. Michael Doucette, one of two active Portland, Me., priests suspended March 9. After paying his legal bill, typically one-third of the total award, Gagnon netted $63,000. That kept him going for a year with therapy at $150 an hour. But 22 years after Father Doucette destroyed his trust, Gagnon...
...panel included moderator David Nyhan ’62 and Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy Management Mary Jo Bane, as well as former Boston mayor and current U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Ray Flynn and Rev. Christopher Coyne, director of worship for the archdiocese...
...Rev. Al Sharpton, primed for his presidential candidacy, is adding "author" to his resume. PW reports that in October, Kensington will publish "Al on America," to be co-written with NY Daily News columnist Karen Hunter...
...trying to save his a__," the Rev. D. George Spagnolia told me. He was speaking of Bernard Cardinal Law and the Boston prelate's crackdown on priests who stand accused of child abuse. Cardinal Law had turned over 90 names of area clerics to the district attorney's office; 10 of the clerics were still active in the priesthood but were quickly put on administrative leave. Father Spagnolia, the 10th to be suspended, had become the first to proclaim his innocence, loudly, insisting that he would fight the charges "all the way to Rome...