BOSTON (MA)
Boston Globe
February 8, 2018
By Kevin Cullen
Last month, after I had the temerity to criticize Pope Francis because he smeared survivors of clerical sexual abuse in Chile, I got a phone call at my desk at the Globe.
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“Is this Mr. Cullen?” a raspy voice asked.
For a fleeting moment, I thought it was one of my favorite aunts, Aunt Junie, who looked like my dad, but then I quickly remembered that my Aunt Junie died some years ago.
“Yes, this is me,” I answered.
“Mr. Cullen,” the woman on the other end of the line said, “I just want to let you know that you are going to hell.”
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I got thinking about the Church Lady who condemned me to eternal fire the other day as I was reading a story about how, despite the pope’s denials, he was, in fact, told about how his protege, a Chilean bishop named Juan Barros, was credibly accused of having ignored the crimes of a priest whom the Vatican later found guilty of sexually abusing young people.
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