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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.
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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
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