Rest in Peace, Phil Saviano, #Spotlight Hero from Boston

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Phil Saviano, advocate for survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, dies at 69

washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…
Why did the Boston Globe pass on Phil's story in 1998?

Thankfully, Martin Baron published in 2002
archive.md/NIrb7
Every step Catholic leaders have taken to address the child abuses, "they've done it begrudgingly"
At long last, Phil had a warm reconciliation with his father, who was angry at him for bringing the Church scandal to their hometown.

"All those years ago," his father told him, "you were right. Give them hell."

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Maybe the other options in a demographically-doomed declining economy where he's not in control were too risky for him and his family?

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Oh.

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