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Philadelphia Priest Abuse Trial Blog
Ralph Cipriano
Monsignor William J. Lynn doesn’t get excited when he’s told that archdiocese priests are sexually abusing altar boys.
He doesn’t loose his cool when he discovers that one priest has young boys living with him in the rectory, or that another priest has a farm where he keeps three young boys rotating through his bedroom.
That same monsignor doesn’t hit the panic button when he learns that one of his predator priests just busted out of the sex clinic, and is AWOL from the archdiocese, or that another predator priest who just molested a 13-year-old girl has fled the Commonwealth.
Nope, after six weeks of testimony, the monsignor comes across as a guy who doesn’t rattle easily, even when he’s getting grilled by a grand jury prosecutor who’s obviously gunning for him. But Wednesday at the archdiocese of Philadelphia sex abuse trial, we finally learned what gets a rise out of the monsignor, and by extension, his late boss, Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua.
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