BUFFALO (NY)
WGRZ
February 8, 2018
By Steve Brown and Dave Harrington
2 On Your Side’s Steve Brown has been sharing his “Seeking a Confession” series all week about how a man, born in Buffalo in 1945, wants the Catholic Church to admit a priest is his biological father. You can watch the entire series here.
PART 5 GOING PUBLIC
Jim Graham had a story and he wanted the world to know it.
Among the artifacts and documents Jim Graham has dug up, one item is most prized.
It is a large, heavy crucifix. It belonged to Father Thomas P. Sullivan.
Graham claimed it at the Oblate Mission national headquarters in Washington. He told a priest there that he was a relative.
“It’s a piece of him. I knew this was bouncing off his chest for 59 years. It makes me feel close to him” says Graham.
But the accumulated treasures from almost a quarter-century of searching left him short of his goal: to get the Catholic Church to admit Father Sullivan was his parent.
Then, Graham saw the movie “Spotlight”, which told the story of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize winning investigation into widespread sexual abuse committed by priests. It gave Graham an idea.
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