- Marty Baron: Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this.
- Mike Rezendes: We got Law. This is it.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: No, this is Law covering for one priest, there's another ninety out there.
- Mike Rezendes: Yeah, and we'll print that story when we get it, but we got to go with this now.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: No, I'm not going to rush this story, Mike.
- Mike Rezendes: We don't have a choice, Robby. If we don't rush to print, somebody else is going to find these letters and butcher this story. Joe Quimby from the Herald was at the freaking courthouse!
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Mike.
- Mike Rezendes: What? Why are we hesitating? Baron told us to get Law. This is Law.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Baron told us to get the system. We need the full scope. That's the only thing that will put an end to this.
- Mike Rezendes: Then let's take it up to Ben and let him decide.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: We'll take it to Ben when I say it's time.
- Mike Rezendes: It's time, Robby! It's time! They knew and they let it happen! To KIDS! Okay? It could have been you, it could have been me, it could have been any of us. We gotta nail these scumbags! We gotta show people that nobody can get away with this; Not a priest, or a cardinal or a freaking pope!
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: We've got two stories here: a story about degenerate clergy, and a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Which story do you want us to write? Because we're writing one of them.
- Mike Rezendes: [from trailer] Six percent is 90.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: 90 priests?
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: If there were 90 of these bastards, people would know.
- Mike Rezendes: Maybe they do.
- Marty Baron: We need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. Practice and policy; show me the church manipulated the system so that these guys wouldn't have to face charges, show me they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again. Show me this was systemic, that it came from the top, down.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: Sounds like we're going after Law.
- Marty Baron: We're going after the system.
- Cardinal Law: If I can be of any help, Marty, don't hesitate to ask. I find that the city flourishes when its great institutions work together.
- Marty Baron: Thank you. Personally I'm of the opinion that for a paper to best perform its function, it really needs to stand alone.
- Mike Rezendes: Mitch, are you telling me that the Catholic Church removed legal documents from that courthouse?
- Mitchell Garabedian: Look, I'm not crazy, I'm not paranoid. I'm experienced. Check the docket. You'll see. They control everything.
- Peter Canellos: They say it's just physical abuse but it's more than that, this was spiritual abuse. You know why I went along with everything? Because priests, are supposed to be the good guys.
- Peter Canellos: Did everyone read Eileen McNamara's column this weekend?
- Boston Globe Worker: That's the Geoghan case?
- Marty Baron: Yeah, what's the follow on that?
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: It-It's a column, what kind of follow are you thinking?
- Marty Baron: Uh... well apparently this priest molested kids in 6 different parishes over the last 30 years and the attorney for the victims, a Mr...
- Eileen McNamara: Garabedian
- Marty Baron: Thanks Eileen, Mr Garabedian says Cardinal Law found out about it 15 years ago and did nothing.
- Peter Canellos: Yeah, I think that attorney is a bit of a crank, and The Church dismissed the claim.
- Eileen McNamara: He-said she-said.
- Marty Baron: Whether Mr Garabedian is a 'crank' or not, he says he has documents that prove that Cardinal knew.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: As I understand that those documents are under seal.
- Marty Baron: Okay, but the fact remains a Boston priest abused 80 kids, we have a lawyer who says he can prove Law knew about it and we've written all of... uh... 2 stories in the last 6 months. This strikes me as an essential story to a local paper, I think the very least we have to go through those documents.
- Peter Canellos: How would you like to do that?
- Marty Baron: Oh uh, I don't know what the laws are here, but in Florida we would go to court.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: You wanna sue the Church?
- Marty Baron: Technically we wouldn't sue the Church, we'd file a motion to lift the seal on the documents.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: The Church will read that as us suing them. So will everybody else.
- Marty Baron: Good to know.
- Jim Sullivan: [from trailer] I was doing my job.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Yeah, you and everyone else.
- Mitchell Garabedian: This city, these people... making the rest of us feel like we don't belong. But they're no better than us. Look at how they treat their children. Mark my words, Mr. Rezendes. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.
- Mike Rezendes: [from trailer] They knew and they let it happen! It could've been you, it could've been me, it could've been any of us.
- Mitchell Garabedian: I'm Armenian. How many Armenians do you know in Boston ?
- Mike Rezendes: Steve Kurkjian, works at the Globe...
- Mitchell Garabedian: Oh. That's two. You should get a prize or something.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: [about his molestation] Joe, did you ever try and tell anyone?
- Joe Crowley: Like who, a priest?
- Phil Saviano: I was eleven. And I was preyed upon by father David Holly in Wester. And I don't mean prayed for, I mean preyed upon.
- Mike Rezendes: [from trailer] I know there's things you cannot tell people. But I also know there's a story here people will hear about it.
- [last lines]
- Title Card: Over the course of 2002, the Spotlight team published close to 600 stories about the scandal.
- Title Card: 249 priests and brothers were publicly accused of sexual abuse within the Boston Archdiocese. The number of survivors in Boston is estimated to be well over 1,000.
- Title Card: In December 2002, Cardinal Law resigned from the Boston Archdiocese. He was reassigned to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, one of the highest ranking Roman Catholic churches in the world.
- Title Card: Major abuse scandals have been uncovered in the following places: Albany, NY, Altoona, PA, Anchorage, AK, Anchorage, KY, Baker, OR, Baltimore, MD, Billings, MT, Bridgeport, CT, Briscoe Memorial, WA, Brooklyn, NY, Burlington, VT, Camden, NJ, Cape Girardeau, MO, Charleston, SC, Chicago, IL, Cincinnati, OH, Cleveland, OH, Collegeville, MN, Conway Springs, KS, Covington, KY, Dallas, TX, Davenport, IA, Denver, CO, Detroit, MI, Dubuque, IA, East Greenwich, RI, El Paso, TX, Fairbanks, AK, Fall River, MA, Fargo, ND, Farmington, IA, Fort Worth, TX, Gallup, NM, Goshen, NY, Grand Mound, IA, Grand Rapids, MI, Greenbush, MN, Hannibal, CT, Helena, MT, Honolulu, HI, Indianapolis, IN, Jackson, MS, Joliet, IL, Kansas, City, KS, Kansas, City, MO, Lincoln, NE, Los Angeles, CA, Los Gatos, CA, Louisville, KY, Manchester, NH, Marietta, GA, Marty Indian School, SD, Memphis, TN, Mendham, NJ, Miami, FL, Milwaukee, WI, Mobile, AL, Monterey, CA, Nashville, TN, New Orleans, LA, New York, NY, Oakland, CA, Omaha, NE, Onamia, MN, Orange, CA, Palm Beach, FL, Peoria, IL, Philadelphia, PA, Phoenix, AZ, Pittsburgh, PA, Portland, OR, Providence, RI, Raleigh, NC, Richmond, VA, Rochester, NY, Rockville Centre, NY, Rosebud Reservation, SD, Sacramento, CA, San Antonio, TX, San Bernardino, CA, San Diego, CA, Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Fe, NM, Santa Rosa, CA, Savannah, GA, Scranton, PA, Seattle, WA, Spokane, WA, Springfield, MA, St. Francis, WI, St. Ignatius, MT, St. Louis, MO, St. Michael, AK, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN, Stebbins, AK, Stockton, CA, Tucson, AZ, Wellesley, MA, Wilmington, DE, Worcester, MA, Yakima, WA, Yuma, AZ, Adelaide, Australia, Akute, Nigeria, Antigonish, Canada, Arapiraca, Brazil, Auckland, New Zealand, Ayacucho, Peru, Ballarat, Australia, Bass Hill, Australia, Bathurst, Australia, Berazategui, Argentina, Berlin, Germany, Bindoon, Australia, Bo, Sierra Leone, Bontoc, Philippines, Brits, South Africa, Bruges, Belgium, Buenos Aires, Argentia, Caen, France, Canberra, Australia, Cape Town, South Africa, Cebu City, Philippines, Chatham, Canada, Chimbote, Peru, Christchurch, New Zealand, Ciudad de México, México, Comillas, Spain, Cottolengo, Chile, Cuacnopalan, Mexico, Curracloe, Ireland, Dandenong, Australia, Dublin, Ireland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Feilding, New Zealand, Flawinne, Belgium, Franca, Brazil, Gortahork, Ireland, Goulbara, Australia, Grenada, Spain, Hamilton, New Zealand, Hobart, Australia, Hollabrunn, Austria, Igloolik, Canada, Kilnacrott, Ireland, Kircubbin, Northern Ireland, Latticefield, Australia, Letterfrack, Ireland, London, England, Lota, Ireland, Maipú, Chile, Manchester, England, Manila, Philippines, Mariana, Brazil, Masterton, New Zealand, Medellín, Colombia, Melbourne, Australia, Melipilla, Chile, Mérida, Venezuela, Middlesbrough, England, Mildura, Australia, Mittagong, Australia, Monageer, Ireland, Morisset, Australia, Morón, Argentina, Mount Isa, Australia, Munich, Germany, Nairobi, Kenya, Naval, Philippines, Neerkol, Australia, Newcastle, Australia, Ngong, Kenya, Ollur, India, Ottre, Belgium, Paraná, Argentina, Perth, Australia, Pilar, Argentina, Poznan, Poland, Preston, England, Quilicura, Chile, Quilmes, Argentina, Rab, Croatia, Reading, England, Frickhofen, Germany, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rufisque, Senegal, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France, Salta, Argentina, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Santiago, Chile, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sherbrooke, Canada, Silverstream, New Zealand, Soni, Tanzania, St. John's, Canada, Sydney, Australia, Toowoomba, Australia, Trondheim, Norway, Tubay, Philippines, Wagga Wagga, Australia, Wexford, Ireland, Wilno, Canada, Wollongong, Australia
- Mitchell Garabedian: [from trailer] I don't want you recording this in any way, shape or form. Nothing.
- Phil Saviano: You guys gotta understand. This is big. This is not just Boston. It's the whole country. It's the whole world. And it goes right up to the Vatican.
- Mike Rezendes: Do you still go to mass?
- Richard Sipe: No, I haven't been to church for some time now but I still consider myself a Catholic.
- Mike Rezendes: How does that work?
- Richard Sipe: The Church is an institution, Mike, made of men. It's passing. My faith is in the eternal. I try to separate the two.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: [from trailer] We understand you settled several cases against the church.
- Eric Macleish: I can't discuss that.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Are there any records of any of these settlements?
- Eric Macleish: No.
- [first lines]
- Young Cop: How's that going?
- Court Clerk Mark: Mother's bawlin' and the uncle is pissed off.
- Young Cop: She's not married?
- Court Clerk Mark: Divorced, with 4 kids. I guess the Father was helping out.
- Young Cop: Helping out?
- Court Clerk Mark: ...Hey, Mr. Burke, they're in the back talking to the Bishop.
- Paul Burke: [entering] And Father?
- Court Clerk Mark: We put him in the break room.
- Paul Burke: Any press?
- Court Clerk Mark: Some guy from the Citizen, but we sent him away. None of the big papers.
- Paul Burke: Let's keep it that way...
- [continues down the hall]
- Young Cop: Who's that?
- Court Clerk Mark: Assistant D.A.
- Young Cop: It's gonna be hard to keep the papers from arraignment.
- Court Clerk Mark: What arraignment?
- Mitchell Garabedian: I already talked to the Phoenix.
- Mike Rezendes: Yeah, there's a reason I didn't see it. Nobody reads a Phoenix anymore... they're broke, they don't have any power. The Globe does. If we cover the story, everybody will hear about it.
- Mitchell Garabedian: The Church thinks in centuries, Mr. Rezendes. Do you think your paper has resources to take that on?
- Mike Rezendes: Yeah, I do. But if you don't mind me asking... Do you?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Did you play a sport here, Jack?
- Jack Dunn: Yeah. Football. Why?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Mmm. I ran track. You know, I went to Providence yesterday to talk to one of Father Talbot's victims. He played hockey here. And he's one of the better ones. He's got a wife, kids, good job. About ten minutes into the conversation, the guy breaks down. You know, couldn't stop crying. Said he could never figure out why Father Talbot picked him. Father Talbot coached the hockey team. So... I gues we just got lucky. You and me.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: So it's thirteen priests?
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Yeah.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Looks that way.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: Holy shit.
- Eric Macleish: Most of these folks, they just want some acknowledgement... of what happened. We got them a sit down with the Bishop and... a little dough, and that's the best they can hope for.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Well, certainly, the best that priest could hope for.
- Mike Rezendes: [Robby and Mike enter the office] Hey, Linda. It's quiet, huh?
- Linda: Yeah. Easiest overtime I ever made. Phone hasn't rung once. Marty sent two of mine down to Spotlight.
- Linda: [Robby and Mike head to the Spotlight office] Great article, guys.
- Eric Macleish: I already sent you a list of names.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: What are you talking about? To whom?
- Eric Macleish: The Globe. Years ago. After the Porter case, I got plenty of calls. I had twenty priests in Boston alone, but I couldn't go after 'em without the press. So I sent you guys a list of names, and you buried it.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: I want those names tomorrow.
- Eric Macleish: Check your god damn clips, Robby.
- Mitchell Garabedian: Three years ago I get a call from an ex-priest, Anthony Benzovich. He was at Blessed Sacrament back in '62, and he saw Geoghan...
- [waits for two cops to pass by, then continues]
- Mitchell Garabedian: ... taking little boys up to the rectory bedroom. So he's appalled, all right? And tells the bishop about it. The bishop threatens to re-assign him... to South America.
- Mike Rezendes: Jesus.
- Mike Rezendes: Yeah. So, fast forward thirty-five years. Benzovich reads that Geoghan has been charged with molesting hundreds of kids. So, he feels guilty. He calls me.
- Mike Rezendes: So, you have testimony of a priest telling his superiors about Geoghan in '62?
- Mitchell Garabedian: [shakes his head] No, I do not. Because when I call Benzovich in to give a disposition, he comes in with a lawyer.
- Mike Rezendes: Wilson Rogers!
- Mitchell Garabedian: Right. And suddenly, Father Benzovich has a very foggy memory. Can't remember anything. He's useless. So, I go back to work, I forget about it, whatever. Until about a year ago, I find an article about a priest who warned church officials about Geoghan.
- Mike Rezendes: Benzovich went to the press?
- Mitchell Garabedian: Yeah. Local paper, Patriot-Ledger. Nobody saw it. But now I got Benzovich on record. So, I file a motion to depose Benzovich a second time. And Wilson Rogers, that smug son of a bitch, files a motion opposing my motion. And that's when I have him.
- Mike Rezendes: Have him how?
- Mitchell Garabedian: Rogers opposes my motion, so I have to make an argument as to why I'm allowed to depose Father Benzovich a second time. Okay? But this time, I'm allowed to attach exhibits. You follow what I'm saying?
- Mike Rezendes: The sealed documents?
- Mitchell Garabedian: Yes! I can attach the sealed documents that I've gotten in discovery, Mr. Rezendes, the same documents your paper is currently suing for.
- Mike Rezendes: You're shitting me!
- Mitchell Garabedian: What? No, no, I'm not shitting you! So, I pull out the fourteen most damning docs, and I attach them to my motion. And they prove everything. Everything! About the church, about the bishops, about Law...
- Mike Rezendes: And it's all public! Because your motion to oppose Rogers' motion...
- Mitchell Garabedian: ...is public, yeah. Exactly. Now you're paying attention.
- Mike Rezendes: So, I can just walk into that courtroom right now and get those documents?
- Mitchell Garabedian: No, you cannot. Because the documents are not there.
- Mike Rezendes: But you just said they're public.
- Mitchell Garabedian: I know I did. But this is Boston. And the church does not want them to be found. So, they are not there.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: You know thirteen priests in Boston who have molested children?
- Phil Saviano: Yeah! Why do you keep repeating everything I say?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: [quieter than before] I just like to clarify things.
- Phil Saviano: Maybe you should have clarified it five years ago when I sent you all of this stuff! It's all... right here!
- [silence, Phil composes himself]
- Phil Saviano: May I use your bathroom?
- [pause]
- Matt Carroll: Yeah, sure, Phil.
- Richard Sipe: If you really want to understand the crisis, you have to start with the celicabacy requirement. That was my first major finding. Only 50% of the clergy are celibate. Now, most of them are having sex with other adults; but the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy that tolerates and even protects pedophiles.
- Richard Sipe: After the first major scandal in Louisiana, Tom Doyle, the secretary-canonist for the papal nuncio, coauthored a report warning that pedophile priests were a billion-dollar liability. That was in 1985.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: [upon learning what Sipe's estimate of the incident rate of pedophilia in catholic priests would translate to] NINETY fucking priests... in Boston!
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: [as Mike and Matt enter Baron's office] Anything?
- Mike Rezendes: Law just turned us down.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: Jesus Christ!
- Mike Rezendes: I just got off the phone with Donna Morrissey. She said, quote, "We don't even want to know what the questions are," end quote.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: She really said that?
- Mike Rezendes: Yeah!
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: Well, that ought to do it.
- Marty Baron: [as he writes it in the draft] "The church had no interest in knowing what The Globe's questions would be." Work it in somewhere before the jump. Anything else?
- Middle Age Priest at St. Peter's: So the other day I was on the World Wide Web. Anything you want to know, it's right there. Now, I have to admit that as a priest, this makes me a little nervous. Should I be worried about job security? I don't think so. You see, knowledge is one thing, but faith... Faith is another.
- Phil Saviano: Look, I get it. No one wants to read about kids getting raped by priests, especially now. But you asked a lot of people to re-live some very painful experiences...
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Phil, you know why we were taken off of this story.
- Phil Saviano: ...and-and... and you just disappear. It's been six weeks since 9/11.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: I realize that, and we're gonna get back to it.
- Phil Saviano: When? You're doing the same thing you guys did last time.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: No.
- Phil Saviano: You're dropping us.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: No.
- Phil Saviano: Maybe I should tell the Herald that story.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Okay, Phil, you go ahead and do that. It'll undo all the work we've done, but I can't stop you. Listen to me. I am here because I care. We're not going away. We're gonna tell this story. We're gonna tell it right. We just need a little more time. That's all we're asking for.
- Phil Saviano: Why bother asking? You're gonna do what you want anyway. You always do.
- Mike Rezendes: Holy shit.
- Matt Carroll: Robby.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: That's three off Sipe's estimate. That's incredible.
- Mike Rezendes: Robby.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: How many?
- Matt Carroll: 87.
- Mike Rezendes: 87 priests in Boston.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Call Macleish. I wanna talk to him.
- Pete Conley: You know, you got a lot of people here who respect you, Robby.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Oh, well..
- Pete Conley: The work you do.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: That's good to know.
- Pete Conley: Well, it's 'cause you care about this place.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Yeah.
- Pete Conley: It's why you do what you do. It's who you are. You know, but people need the Church more than ever right now. You know, you can feel it. And the cardinal, um... you know, the cardinal, he might not be perfect. But we can't throw out all the good he's doing over a few bad apples. Now, you know, I'm bringing this up to you because I know this is Baron's idea. His agenda. I gotta tell you, I mean, honest to God, I mean, he doesn't care about this city the way we do. I mean, how could he?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: This is how it happens, isn't it, Pete?
- Pete Conley: What's that?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: A guy leans on a guy, and suddenly the whole town just looks the other way.
- Pete Conley: Robby. Robby. Lookit. Marty Baron is just trying to make his mark. He's gonna be here for a couple of years and he's gonna move on. Just like he did in New York and Miami. Where are you gonna go?
- Mike Rezendes: I don't know why I got so pissed off. You know, I think Robby's wrong.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: You know, you're just... you care about the story, Mike. We all do.
- Mike Rezendes: Yeah, I guess.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Hmm. I stopped going to church with my nana. I-It was... it was too hard. I... you know, I'd be sitting there, and I-I would start thinking about Joe Crowley or someone else, and I just... I just got so angry.
- Mike Rezendes: Did you... did you tell her why?
- Sacha Pfeiffer: [shaking her head] She goes to church three times a week, Mike.
- Mike Rezendes: It really pisses me off. You know, I actually really liked going to church when I was a little kid.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Mmm. Why'd you stop?
- Mike Rezendes: Typical shit. But the weird thing is is... I think I... think I figured that maybe one day, I w... I... I would atually go back. I was really... I was holding on to that.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Mm-hmm.
- Mike Rezendes: I read those letters, and... and it... and something just... cracked.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: It's a shitty feeling.
- Mike Rezendes: Yeah. It's a shitty feeling.
- Pete Conley: Looks like a long day.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Hey, Pete.
- Pete Conley: I'm sorry to make it longer.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Has anyone ever said no to a drink with you, Pete?
- Pete Conley: Well, sure. But the trick is to keep asking.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Does Jack Dunn work for the school?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: No, he's PR for Boston College. They call him when they need help.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: And Pete Conley, why-why was he there?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Good question. Pete's a big alum. But I called Bill directly and I asked for a sit-down. I never mentioned anybody else.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: It's like everybody already knows the story.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: [indicating the Globe building across the street] Yeah. Except us. And we work right there.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Look, I'm close to stories on 70 priests. We nail that, along with those letters, this is proof that this is bigger than Law. It's the whole system.
- Marty Baron: You have multiple sources confirming all those priests?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: On some. I can get more.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: Too risky. If we're not buttoned up on every single one of them, the Church will pick us apart.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: I think I can get us someone from the other side of the aisle.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: Somebody inside the Church?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Yeah. A lawyer.
- Marty Baron: Will he go on the record?
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Deep background. But he's a solid source.
- Mike Rezendes: Robby, it's incredible. Law knew about Geoghan for years, no question. There's a letter to Law from a woman, Margaret Gallant, who lived in Jamaica Plain in the early '80s when Geoghan was there. Listen to this. "Our family is rooted in the Church. Our desire is to protect the Holy Orders, even in the midst of our agony over the seven boys in our family who have been violated." Seven, Robby. Seven boys. "It was suggested we keep silent. We did not question the authority of the Church two years ago. But since Father Geoghan is still in his parish..." But she sent it to Law and Law did shit. Here's another to Law, same year. Listen to this. "A word on the recent assignment of Father Geoghan as an associate at St. Julia's in Weston. Father Geoghan has a history of homosexual involvement with young boys. I understand his recent departure from St. Brendan's may be related to this problem. I wonder if Father Geoghan should not be reduced to just weekend work while receiving some kind of therapy. You know how grateful I am to you for your constant concern. Sincerely yours in our Lord, Most Reverend John M D'Arcy, auxiliary bishop of Boston. December 7, 1984."
- Matt Carroll: An auxiliary bishop wrote that?
- Mike Rezendes: Right.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: That's incredible. He broke ranks. I mean, w-when did Gallant write her letter?
- Mike Rezendes: 1984.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: And Law just ignored it?
- Matt Carroll: How do you ignore that freaking letter?
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