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Hitchens was older, so his mom’s death affected him more, just like my older but not my younger adopted son (his brother) was full of rage over their parent’s deaths.

As for the scandal: I lived in Boston when Law was there, and let his office do the work. We tried to get him to openly oppose the pushing of Euthanasia at Harvard and other medical schools, but we (myself and two professors) were ignored...he was too weak to go after Geohagan (the worst of the lot) because he was a popular left wing street priest, and if he tried to remove him, Law would have faced criticism...or maybe the gays in his office didn’t even bother to let him know about the problem.

All I know is that a priest taught my son and eighth graders in a Boston parochial school that masturbation was okay, and my son was shocked...

I think it was Paul Shanley who was the popular long-haired, jeans-wearing "street priest" who "worked with troubled youth" ---runaways and hustlers --- and was convicted on the basis of the "recovered memories" of a drug addict. Prosecutor Martha Coakley was involved in that. She was also involved in the bizarre "day care abuse" case that slammed innocent people into prison --- and the courts have now come to the conclusion that "recovered memories" should not be evidence to convict.

I'm not saying Shanley was innocent. Far from it. He did admit sex with both women and men, and older adolescents, but not with kids. But I am saying that the whole episode is tangled and perverted with plenty of corruption to go around including on the part of police and prosecutors.

Just digging into these cases is disturbing and --- how can I put it? --- contaminating. Polluting. I hate what happened to the victims, who continue to suffer. And Cardinal Law -- at Sta. Maria Maggiore in Rome? Gag me with a spoon.

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