MANCHESTER (NH)
Concord Monitor
The Associated Press
June 08. 2005 8:00AM
MANCHESTER - Many graduating seniors at Trinity High School have asked Catholic Bishop John McCormack not to celebrate today's baccalaureate Mass.
Students say 50 of the 112 seniors have signed a petition saying they'd rather McCormack not say the mass. At a meeting last week, many seniors questioned McCormack about his role in clergy child abuse.
McCormack has been accused of going easy on priests in the Boston area who were accused of child sexual abuse. He was a top official in the Boston Archdiocese under Cardinal Bernard Law, who was forced to resign because of the priest sex-abuse scandal.
The Diocese says McCormack plans to celebrate the Mass.