I got his phone number and started calling him at his home in Ireland. He wanted to tell his story but he wasn’t sure how. We spoke every Sunday for five months until he finally decided he was ready to speak on camera.
No, because he was like that on the phone straightaway … He was very jovial and polite, and he just seemed like he wasn’t that nervous about it. He had been holding this in for so long, and obviously he was ready to talk.
You have to be so nonemotional and professional and not let anything in, but after a week of listening to someone talk about molesting children, specifically and graphically, I was overcome. I spent the last day of the trip holed up in my hotel room, unable to get out of bed.
I don’t think so. We provided a private screening to the church and five people showed up, but not Cardinal Mahony.
I do. And I don’t think putting him in Rome in charge of a bigger church–like [Boston’s] Cardinal Law was–is a solution, either.
