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The priests about an important matter, but instead of taking irenes confession in the church, father feit had her go next door to the rectory and after the visit irene went missing. >> so immediately, my dad and others were wondering, you know, what had happened and what did this guy know? >> traumatized, irenes family retreated into their home surrounded by their closest relatives. >> i remember being in the house and the lady sitting on the bed just crying her heart out. >> as painful as the m...

Hopped in her car to a short five-minute ride to her church. irene went to confession every saturday. >> she was highly religious. it was very, very important to her. >> on that april day in 1960, irene met with father john feit. a 27-year-old visiting priest. he had come to the sacred heart church from a nearby town to help out on the busy easter weekend. >> kind of a nice guy but he was a fellow. >> a former monk spent six months with father fight at this monastery in missouri. after irenes mu...

Fight told him about a young woman he saw for confession. just before easter. >> he offered to take her to the rectory. >> about sexually assaulting her. >> after fondling her breasts he took her to the basement. >> about keeping her bound and gagged. >> he put something over her head. >> about her struggle to live. >> she was saying, i cant breathe, i cant breathe. >> and about dumping her lifeless body at the canal. >> on the way over there, father fight said that he patted her on her breasts,...

>> let me challenge you on one thing. why would anybody, i mean, i am maybe an old boys club guy, myself, in some ways. some ways. thats pretty much the past. my question to you is, why would anybody want to hang out -- what guy do you know would want to hang out with another guy, old-school reference there, who has sex with older boys? why would you want to have the same -- be sitting at the same meal table with him, be in the same rectory with him? you wouldnt want anything to do with that per...

Per the colonel of the state police indefinitely. ill take a couple of questions. again, understanding that there are certain things that we still cannot answer and cannot discuss. >> can you tell us what happened with the threat of the church this afternoon. >> there was in fact a threat at the ste. rose church here in newtown. the church, everything is taken extremely seriously. the church was evacuated as a precaution. it was thoroughly searched, as was the rectory, and weve initiated a crimi...

Colleged like where i went, holy cross or notre dame, they are going to be exempt from this requirement that get it paid for without a copay. would anybody have raised hell? >> would there have been an outrage or uproar like were getting now if the decision had gone the other way in terms of the breadth of the exemption? >> i dont know. i go back to the point i made before. its amazing to me it took two or three days to point out this is the law of the land @í!28 states already. >> its not. tho...

This community. now, in the rectory over there when the tornado hit was the pastor inside. heres the devastation, heres the storm. he climbs into the bathtub. listen. >> i got into the bathtub face down to try to cover my head, and i heard this noise. and i thought, oh, what is happening? i laid there. i just prayed and said, thy will be done, and i decided to wait until the end of the noise, and then i opened that door and everything was blocking. it was all covered there. >> reverend monaghan ...

Without informing the new pastor that there is a pedophile in your rectory. dont allow them around children. we had to hold them accountable. >> a third or half the people that watch this every night who are roman catholic, they all want this stopped. they want it broken, they want the conspiracy to end, the secrecy, the code of keeping it secret, the looking out for people with so-called psychological problems, they want it all to end, no more looking out for the priests who are bad or troubled...

Brought in does not of witnesses and reviewed thousands of document. we saw there was a conspiracy, there is a cover-up and monsignor lynn, a secretary for clergy would obvious just recycle priests across the archdiocese without informing the new pastor theres a pedophile in your rectory, dont allow them around children. we had to hold them accountable. >> a third or half the people that watch this every night who are roman catholic, they all want this stopped. they want it broken, they want the...

Of his eminence cardinal, has he been helpful? can you describe it? >> yes, we have a good working relationship now. the fact that we have these cases of billy and mark getting all this national attention is because the archdiocese shared them with my office. we empanelled a grand jury that brought in dozens of witnesses and reviewed thousands of documents. we saw there was a conspiracy, there is a cover-up and monsignor lynn, a secretary for clergy would often recycle priests across the archdio...