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	'Hand of God' Airs on TV Tonight By Tom Dalton Salem News January 16, 2007 http://www.salemnews.com/local/local_story_016121332 Salem - A documentary film about a priest's sexual abuse of a Salem altar boy will be shown tonight on "Frontline," the public television news program. "Hand of God," which airs at 9 p.m. on Channel 2, is the story of Paul Cultrera's abuse by the late Rev. Joseph Birmingham, who served at St. James Parish in Salem in the late 1960s. The film was made by Paul's younger brother, Joe, a New York City filmmaker. Birmingham, who died in 1989, was accused in lawsuits of abusing dozens of young boys in Salem, Gloucester, Lowell and other communities where he served.
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