[See the complaint. Photo above: Flannery Gallagher looks at a childhood photo of her father, the late Francis X. Gallagher, Jr., at a press conference announcing a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Baltimore and St. Mary’s Seminary, on June 27, 2023, in Baltimore, Md. (Michelle Boorstein / The Washington Post)]

The late patriarch of the family founded the law firm that still represents the Baltimore archdiocese in abuse matters. His son told officials there that he was abused at St Mary’s Seminary when he was a teenager.

For more than 60 years, the name Francis X. Gallagher has been linked prominently in Baltimore with the Catholic Church. The late Gallagher Sr. in 1961 founded an influential law firm that represented the Baltimore Archdiocese and does to this day; his name adorns Catholic institutions in the city, his face smiles from black and white photos with a pope…