Archivist of Our Time: BishopAccountability.org

This is the letter BishopAccountability.org distributed to mark the fifth anniversary of clergy sexual abuse revelations. Note the point that Terry McKiernan makes: “…documents show that the archdiocese received its first known warning about Geoghan over fifty years ago in 1954.”


Monitor l Five Years Ago | The Article that Rocked Catholicism
January 6, 2007

Dear Friend,

On this date five years ago, an article in the Boston Globe brought the centuries-old abuse crisis in the Catholic church into the Internet age. Read again the powerful Globe article on accused priest John Geoghan, with links added by BishopAccountability.org to original documents from Geoghan's personnel file, including the remarkable exchange between Cardinal Medeiros and Margaret Gallant.

Those documents show that the archdiocese received its first known warning about Geoghan over fifty years ago in 1954. The public learned about him when the mother of three survivors filed the first suit in 1996, and in 2001 Kristen Lombardi wrote a groundbreaking article in the Boston Phoenix.

We are resuming regular emailings of our Monitor newsletter to bring you breaking news, document features like this one on Geoghan, and new postings of diocesan documents from California, Texas, Massachusetts, and elsewhere. We will post over 10,000 pages of diocesan files in the next year. I hope that you'll remain a subscriber to the Monitor by clicking here.

My assurances to you: We will never give or sell your email address to anyone, and we'll fully protect your privacy. At any time, you may choose to stop receiving the Monitor by clicking on the "SafeUnsubscribe" link at the bottom of this email.

Visit BishopAccountability.org
Happy New Year to you, and thank you for your continued caring and interest.
Sincerely,

Terry McKiernan
BishopAccountability.org

email: staff@bishop-accountability.org
phone: 508-479-9304

If you would like to see a pdf of the Globe page featuring these commentaries, go to www.bishop-accountability.org




In the Vineyard
January 25, 2007
Volume 6, Issue 2 Printer Friendly Version (PDF)


Page One

Diocese/State Watch

LETTER to the Editor

Five Years Later

Commentary

Theologian’s Corner: Gaile Pohlhaus – “What’s Infallible? What’s Not?”

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“Remembering Dot Winslow” – reflections from friends

 


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