Once, while going over old documents, Spade had asked him, “Father,
you’re such a nice guy, how could you have been a part of this? I mean you
had to know what you were doing was wrong.”
“He didn’t have any real answer,” recalls Spade,
“other that it was his job and that he was trained to be obedient to his
cardinal.”
When it is all done, when the report is finally released, a single
sentence on Page 41 will distinguish Molloy from others who participated in the
handling of the complaints. It reads, “Molloy displayed glimpses of
compassion for victims.”