When the scandal finally broke in 2002, hundreds of victims came forward, dozens of lawsuits were filed, Boston's Cardinal Law resigned, and the archdiocese had to sell off property to meet its gigantic legal expenses. These stories were sad enough to sound alike: priests using their authority to lure young boys into sexual situations, and those same priests being shuffled by the Church from parish to parish before their crimes could generate too much outcry. Faith by Jennifer HaighHarper, 2011The sex abuse scandal that engulfed the Catholic Church at the beginning of the new millennium broke first in the Archdiocese of Boston, and it was from the most Catholic parts of Boston, the narrow streets of South Boston and the tight-knit communities of Dorchester, that the first wave of wrenching stories began to emerge.
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