By Dorothy Rabinowitz
Wall Street Journal
April 27-28, 2005

Note from BishopAccountability.org: This article is about Rev. Gordon MacRae, a Manchester NH priest convicted in 1994 of sexual assault and now serving a 33- to 67-year prison sentence. "A Priest's Story" was written by Dorothy Rabinowitz, a member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, and originally ran in the WSJ editorial pages on April 27 and 28, 2005. On April 30, 2005, the WSJ posted the article on its online OpinionJournal editorial page, and we link to that version. In the online version, the essay's titles make the author's point clear: she believes MacRae is suffering the same fate as the daycare workers whose trials on abuse charges she had indicted in No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times.

Whatever your position on the Catholic crisis, Rabinowitz's article on MacRae is significant. We present it here with related materials:

• A Priest's Story: Not All Accounts of Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church Turn Out to Be True, by Dorothy Rabinowitz (April 27-28, 2005, Web version April 30, 2005)
  
  
• The NH AG's description of the MacRae case, with links to over 100 MacRae documents from the AG's investigative file
  
  
• Selected MacRae documents in chronological order (including diocesan documents, investigative files, and MacRae's own affidavit)
  
  
• The AG's entire MacRae file {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30} {31} {32} {33} {34} {35} {36} {37} {38} {39}

along with the New Hampshire attorney general's description of the MacRae case (hyperlinked to the documents it cites), a selection of documents on the MacRae case from the AG's files (including MacRae's own affidavit), the AG's entire MacRae file, and a