I very rarely post, but this is a profoundly sad story from my neck of the woods. Msgr. Strahan is one of the very last “legendary” priests of the Archdiocese of Boston. He directed the choir that sang at John Paul II’s first Mass in the USA, on October 1, 1979. He wrote a very simple but beautiful setting of John 21:15-17 that he sang at that Mass. He wrote some Mass settings that were pretty decent, considering that they were for the NO, back in the ‘80s. Anyway, I never heard a bad word spoken about him. I was shocked when the allegation came down 3 years ago, and, sadly, just assumed that he would be out of ministry for the rest of his life. Apparently, there was enough to indict him, on a charge of child rape, no less. I hope that he is not guilty, but it was, at the very least, a major lapse in judgment for a priest to find himself alone with a child, in 2006. Pray for priests.