7 Sep 2018

US man learns father was priest after 70 years

From Morning Report, 8:40 am on 7 September 2018

A US man forcibly separated by the Catholic Church from his parents as a toddler has, seven decades later, finally learned the truth about his father - by exhuming his body. Jim Graham of Seneca, South Carolina, was convinced his father was a priest, Thomas Sullivan. But he had the head of the Order Father Louis Studer (lewis stoo-dah) telling him he would never be able to prove it. The Boston Globe's church abuse investigative unit Spotlight were the first to begin following Jim Graham's story. The 73-year old spoke to reporter Phil Pennington about what he's just discovered.