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Peter Canellos:Did everyone read Eileen McNamara's column this weekend?Boston Globe Worker:That's the Geoghan case?Marty Baron:Yeah, what's the follow on that?Ben Bradlee Jr.:It... It's a column, what kind of follow are you thinking?Marty Baron:Uh... well apparently this priest molested kids in 6 different parishes over the last 30 years, and the attorney for the victims, a Mr...Eileen McNamara:Garabedian.Marty Baron:Thanks Eileen - Mr. Garabedian says Cardinal Law found out about it 15 years ago, and did nothing.Peter Canellos:Yeah, I think that attorney is a bit of a crank, and The Church dismissed the claim.Eileen McNamara: He-said, she-said.Marty Baron:Whether Mr Garabedian is a "crank" or not, he says he has documents that prove that the Cardinal knew.Ben Bradlee Jr.:As I understand it, those documents are under seal.Marty Baron:Okay, but the fact remains a Boston priest abused 80 kids, we have a lawyer who says he can prove Law knew about it, and we've written all of... uh... 2 stories in the last 6 months. This strikes me as an essential story to a local paper. I think, at the very least, we have to go through those documents.Peter Canellos:How would you like to do that?Marty Baron:Well, uh, I don't know what the laws are here, but in Florida, we would go to court.Ben Bradlee Jr.:You wanna sue the Church?Marty Baron:Technically we wouldn't sue the Church; we'd file a motion to lift the seal on the documents.Ben Bradlee Jr.:The Church will read that as us suing them. So will everybody else.Marty Baron:Good to know