On Dec 18 2002 Polish priest in U.S. had sex with 17-y-o girl he was advising about a sex assault
In June 2002 priest who had sex with a teenager was moved to a new parish!
Bishop John McCormack, as Dr B. Law's aide, had sent Fr Paul Shanley to California, had moved accused Fr Joseph Birmingham on, thought priest okay if had sex with 18-y-o, and sex with boy from another parish is ‘quite different’
Abuse fighters set sights on bishop

HAVING helped to force the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, child sex abuse campaigners in the US Catholic Church have targeted Bishop John McCormack of Manchester, New Hampshire.
  Bishop McCormack was in charge of the Boston diocese's response to allegations of sex between clergy and children for 10 years.

[Picture of grey-headed man wearing glasses, in front of Church coat-of-arms] Next: Bishop McCormack

  The campaigners have been given plentiful evidence of the bishop's inadequate response to sex abuse charges by the release this week of transcripts of his evidence to a civil court earlier this year.
  "Bishop McCormack, we're coming after you," said Gary Bergeron, 40, who says he was abused by a Boston priest. "For every document I've seen with the name Bernard Law, I've seen 100 with the name Bishop McCormack."
  Rick Webb, from Plymouth, Massachusetts, organiser of a protest at St Joseph's Cathedral in Manchester next month, said: "From the time we are there, one month, two max [= maximum], and he's gone."

  The court documents show that while Bishop McCormack, 67, was a senior aide to Cardinal Law, he delayed telling church officials in California about child sex allegations against Father Paul Shanley before the priest was moved to a post there. Father Shanley is facing child rape charges in Massachusetts.
  Again, although the bishop said he believed child sex accusations against Father Joseph Birmingham, he did not pass on the information when the priest was moved to another parish. And when exploring child sex allegations, the bishop repeatedly failed to investigate whether there were other victims.
  Bishop McCormack's views on the seriousness of child sex abuse has [sic, prefer "have"] also attracted criticism. In June he assigned to a new parish a priest who had sex with a teenager, arguing that because the youth was 18 he did not consider it child abuse.
  Challenged in court on why he felt his decision appropriate, he told the court: "It was not anticipated that it would be made public."
  The bishop's response to a sexual relationship between a priest and a boy from another parish has also caused outrage.
  "I'm very concerned about that. He was a young person," the bishop told the court. "But it's quite different from being with a parishioner. The other is an

activity where you're away from the parish and you are off on your own."
  The New Hampshire branch of Voice of the Faithful, the lay Catholic pressure group, has asked the Boston chapter, which campaigned against Cardinal Law, for help. Members will be asked whether Bishop McCormack should stand down.
  "If you got 500 Catholics from all over the state in a room and put the question to them, I bet 400 would vote for new leadership," Peter Flood, the group's New Hampshire co-ordinator said.
  Bishop McCormack said he had no plans to resign but referred to his predicament in a homily last Sunday,

saying: "My past haunts my present and clouds my future with you in New Hampshire."
  Meanwhile, in a fresh blow to the church in the U.S., a visiting priest from Poland has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl he was counselling about a previous sexual assault.
  Roman Kramek, 40, who was serving at Sacred Heart Church in New Britain, Connecticut, was accused of having sex with the girl, 17, on December 18, prosecutors said. Reverend Kramek admitted to the crime in a sworn statement to authorities, they said. The Times, Nicholas Wapshott (New York), AP