Sunday, December 16, 2012  Father Gordon MacRae - imprisoned for
abuse payoff?  Wall Street Journal    By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
April 28, 2005 Nine years after he had been convicted and sent
to prison on charges of sexual assault against a teenaged boy,
Father Gordon MacRae received a letter in July 2003 from Nixon
Peabody LLP. law film representing the Diocese of Manchester,
N.H. Under the circumstances -- he was a priest serving a life
term -- and after all he had seen, the cordial-sounding inquiry
should not perhaps have chilled him as much as it did.  ". . .
an individual named Brett McKenzie has brought a claim against
the Diocese of Manchester seeking a financial settlement as a
result of alleged conduct by you," the letter informed him.
There was a limited window of opportunity for an agreement that
would release him and the Diocese from liability. He should
understand, the lawyer added, that this request didn't require
Fr. MacRae to acknowledge in any way what Mr. McKenzie had
alleged. "Rather, I simply