News - March 6, 2003 Files: Church understood priest abuse in 1950s By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI Union Leader Staff BISHOP JOHN McCORMACK applies ashes to the forehead of a youngster during yesterday's Ash Wednesday service at St. Joseph Cathedral in Manchester to mark the beginning of the 40 days of Lent. (Bob LaPree/Union Leader) The late Rev. John T. Sullivan pursued an endless cycle of madness and human destruction, preying on young and teenage girls from Laconia and Claremont to Michigan and Texas for at least 35 years. “What he’s done goes on into infinity,” said Pat Poling, 53, of Biloxi,...