What Murphy Knew

By Joseph Mallia and Rita Ciolli
Long Island (NY) Newsday
December 15, 2002

http://www.poynter.org/dg.lts/id.46/aid.13898/column.htm

The resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law and the widening criminal investigation in Boston has shifted the church sex scandal spotlight to the role of his deputies, including Long Island Bishop William Murphy.

Murphy, leader of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, served as the second-in-command to Law for more than seven years before coming here in September 2001. He is expected to testify soon before a Massachusetts grand jury investigating why Boston church leaders failed for decades to report priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children to civil authorities.

Also subpoenaed to testify are other former Law deputies, including Bishop Thomas Daily of Brooklyn, Bishop John McCormack of Manchester, N.H., Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans and Bishop Robert Banks of Green Bay, Wis.