fainted, clothed, left, came back, called 911. we said, how do you explain this? he must have misunderstood me. i don t know where that came from. weeks later, the perrys met with bishop john mccormick, whose handwritten notes were in the church file. he insisted his memory of that conversation with father foley was clear. he said, oh, no, he left. he told me he had to clear his head, left the house and walked up and down the streets of the neighborhood. it wasn t just a couple minutes, i don t know how long it was. it wasn t just for a couple months. and came back sometime later and then called. he recalled that detail? very specifically. that was the shocking part of the story. mccormick heard that directly from foley. right. at the end he said it doesn t appear that jim even now is fessing up to what happened. the thought of her passing
accept responsibility for what he s done. the priest wasn t required to show up for the hearing and didn t. his attorney argued the case should be dismissed. the judge later ruled in jim and emily s favor. foley had to take the paternity test. when you look at his face and you look in the mirror, do you see any resemblance? if i was a betting man, i would bet that he is my biological father. i think there is a resemblance. a month after the judge s ruling, foley, jim, and emily took the dna test that would determine paternity. it took about a week to complete the lab work, but to jim and emily, it felt like an eternity. the results left virtually no doubt. probability of paternity is 99.999%. so it came through as a positive on both jim and emily.
jim and emily s paternity. according to the perrys father, jim had been named for james foley. on her own, emily figured out her name was linked to foley, as well. his sister s name was emily. later, we found out that his mother s name was sheila. your name is emily sheila? emily sheila. his sister and his mother. his sister and his mother. yeah. that was shocking, too. still, the priest said there was no certainty that rita s two youngest children were his. good morning, mr. perry. jim and emily decided to ask a judge to order a paternity test. if foley was their biological father, it could change their understanding of their own medical history. they knew going to court would make this deeply personal matter uncomfortably public, but that was a price they were willing to pay. the fact father foley doesn t want to do the test now makes me want to do it even more. i want to take away that last shred of him being able to not
her at that point? i think it was i was very depressed, i just missed the intimacy of the relationship. in july, 1970, emily was born. three years later, rita separated from her husband, and then on that august night in 1973, the fatal overdose. now, for the first time, emily and her brothers could ask the questions about what went on that night between their mother and father foley. do you remember if you had had sexual contact with her that night? yes, i did. it was quite late when we went to bed. sometime later in the night, there was a quarrel, a disagreement. it was over the fact that she was expecting me to stay the full next day.
to yet another affair after rita s death. in 1994, the boston archdiocese recommended father foley resign as pastor, enter a treatment program, and later face his civil and moral responsibility toward his children. in this letter to a church official, father foley complained about the recommendations. though he acknowledged the affair, the suicide and the questions about paternity, he argued it could all remain concealed, as it had been for decades. i will regret to my dying day the circumstances, but i cannot turn back the clock nor bring back the dead. how can the church suffer scandal from an episode that will never possibly be revealed. who will reveal it? the cardinal? myself? a family member? the concern here is scandal. publicity. negative publicity. they went right to that and the key was trying to demonstrate the fact there s no chance this is going to be a