Catholic League Releases Statement on Fr. Gordon MacRae

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Some background, from 2005 newspaper article:
MacRae was convicted in 1994 of raping a 15-year-old boy at a Keene church. He later pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three other boys. He is serving a 33½- to 67-year sentence at the state prison.
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In two articles that appeared on the {Wall Street Journal’s} editorial page Wednesday and yesterday, Dorothy Rabinowitz, a member of the Journal’s editorial board, contends that MacRae was wrongly convicted of the rape and bullied into signing false confessions. In an interview yesterday, Rabinowitz depicted MacRae as the victim of false accusations, overzealous law enforcement and church officials who put fear of bad press ahead of the welfare of their priests. Above all, Rabinowitz said, cases like MacRae’s are driven by lawyers looking to make money.
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concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050429/REPOSITORY/504290320&template=page2

Here is the most linked to of Dorothy Rabinowitz’ editorials about Fr. MacRae:
opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006630

Dorothy Rabinowitz is no slouch. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2001 for her articles about a husband and wife who may have been false convicted of molesting and raping children in their day care center back in the 1980s.

As to what the truth is in Fr. MacRae’s case, I don’t know. 🤷
 
It’s about time someone looked into his case! May justice be served. 🙂
 
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