I too offer my highest praise, thanks and blessings to Marie Collins for her courageous attempts to solve this problem of clerical abuse in the church. What she and the other lay person must have put up with is almost too terrible to contemplate. 
It can't help but think they must have been threatened with excommunication and /or eternal hell. I am also very saddened by Card. O'Malley. I once had the highest regard for him. No longer. 

Having said all of the above comments I cal also say with certainty that the two bishops I knew (Walsh, Hughes -- a close friend) would never have condoned this in any way. They both were strong enough and independent enough that they would be critcal of this situation. 
BTw, BP Hughes was one of the earliest bishops to celebrate Holy Mass for the gay community and the immigrant community -- way back when. I remember helping him wash his car on a few occasions. 
I also remember Frs. Murphy, Stenson, Gallagher, Sargent and all... 

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