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Boston Globe
6 days ago
- Boston Globe
When evil dies: Victims of disgraced priest James Talbot are indifferent to his death
James Talbot, who as a priest raped Scanlan and other boys when he taught at Boston College High School, then raped more boys after he was quietly shipped from Boston to Maine, was not worthy of an emotion so intense, so draining, so overwhelming, as hate; that Talbot simply is not deserving of Jim Scanlan's deepest feelings. 'There's an old saying, and I didn't know what it meant until now. 'The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference,' ' Scanlan said. Nonetheless that anger, that sense of enduring grievance, did eventually well up, and it was and is directed at Talbot's superiors, the Jesuit order and priests who knew, who covered up, who quietly moved Talbot out of BC High in Dorchester so he could rape more boys at a Jesuit high school in Portland, Maine, so he could sexually assault 'They were not just complicit,' Scanlan said. 'They facilitated it.' Advertisement James Talbot is shown in Suffolk Superior Court in January 2005, in Boston. Matt Stone/Associated Press Scanlan's anger was not assuaged by the fact the Jesuit order that produced Talbot didn't have the decency to inform the survivors of Talbot's horrific sexual abuse that he was dead. This from the superiors who for so long ignored the groundswell of evidence and even after Talbot pleaded guilty in two cases still took him and provided comfort at the Campion Center in Weston. Advertisement Scanlan heard it this week from a friend, who heard it from an old Jesuit, who heard it from someone else. There was no formal announcement, however, no formal obituary, from the Society of Jesus, as the Jesuits are known. When I called the Jesuits, looking for answers, they didn't offer much. Mike Gabriele, director of communications for the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus, kept it brief. 'All I can release about the death of James Talbot is that he died at the age of 87 on February 28, 2025. He had been residing at the Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, MO, for some years and died in hospice care in St. Louis,' Gabriele said. The Vianney Center is a behavioral health and addiction treatment facility for Catholic clergy and religious. Asked where Talbot was buried and whether the Jesuits should let Talbot's victims know he was dead, Gabriele added, 'The policy of the USA East Province is not to release a statement or obituary (including place of burial) for any Jesuit credibly accused of sexual abuse.' So, three months after Talbot died, armed with only hearsay because the Jesuits didn't tell anyone who deserved to know, Jim Scanlan took it upon himself to get the word out to as many of Talbot's victims as possible, through a network of survivors whose numbers are stored on his phone and computer. But as he texted and left messages, Scanlan realized he would only reach a fraction of those raped and wounded and hurt so grievously by Talbot. He remembers Talbot's hearing before the Massachusetts Parole Board, seeking release after serving six years for raping Scanlan and two other boys at BC High. The parole board members were questioning Talbot about the sex offender program he was enrolled in at prison, that Talbot was at a stage in the program where he admits to the number of victims he abused. And Talbot, in his own words, acknowledged it was 89. Advertisement 'I can't get to all of the 88 others,' Scanlan said, 'but they deserve to know. Maybe it will bring closure for some of them. Maybe it won't. But they deserve to know.' One victim Scanlan reached is Mike Doherty, who in 1998 was the first to publicly accuse Talbot of sexual abuse Doherty effectively blew the whistle on The civil lawsuit Doherty filed Given the malevolence of Dawber and others vouching for Talbot when they knew he was a rampant sex offender, it is ironic they inadvertently exposed him to criminal charges when they cleared his transfer to Portland. Of the thousands of priests who raped and molested minors, Talbot was among the few to face justice in a courtroom and years in a cell. Advertisement When Talbot moved from Massachusetts to Maine in 1980, the clock on the statute of limitations froze. That allowed then-Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley to f Using the premise that it would toughen them up, Talbot, a soccer and hockey coach at BC High, would wrestle his charges, sometimes when they were clad only in jockstraps, sometimes after plying them with beer. In that compromised position, he sexually assaulted the boys. Doherty was the victim of another ploy; Talbot ingratiated himself to Doherty's family to the point where he had his own room in the Doherty home in Freeport. Talbot used that trust and access to molest Doherty. He did the same to another family in Freeport, sexually assaulting the 9-year-old son of a couple whose marriage he had presided over. After Talbot offered to hear the boy's first confession, the grateful mother waited outside as Talbot assaulted the boy inside a church. Jim Scanlan and Mike Doherty were in the courtroom in Maine in 2018, showing support for that boy, now a man, and seeing off Talbot to prison for three years. Doherty told me he has a different take on the Jesuits taking Talbot at the Weston center and the treatment facility in Missouri. 'If they hadn't taken care of him, he would have been out there in the wind, with no one keeping an eye on him,' Doherty said. Advertisement But, like Scanlan, Doherty feels the Jesuits had an obligation to inform Talbot's victims of his death. 'I stopped wanting 10 minutes with a baseball bat in a room with Talbot a long time ago,' Doherty said. 'I pitied him more than anything. A man of such talent and intellect, squandered all that to further his proclivity. He ended up being a sad individual.' Doherty has been working on a book about Talbot and the lies, the coverup and life-altering harm done to him, Jim Scanlan and at least 87 other boys. He already has a working title, a play on words from the Jesuit motto of 'Men for Others.' Doherty's book will be called, 'Men for Others, Boys for Us.' Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at
Boston Globe
6 days ago
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Eight high school highlights from the first day with every MIAA spring tournament underway
Then we published five playoff primers dissecting the favorites, sleepers, players to watch, longest road trips, and best matchups in the In the afternoon, Globe correspondents Matty Wasserman and Aiden Barker were dispatched to the first day of the Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Advertisement As the evening rolled around, it was all about the playoff action. Now, onto the highlights. 1. Milestones Before we get to some highlights from the end of the regular season, on Thursday North Andover's Isa Robinson netted her 100th career goal in a 16-5 Division 1 first-round win over Barnstable. Earlier, Winchester junior Ryan Martin became the school's all-time leading goal scorer, surpassing Jake Mabardy's mark of 151 goals. Advertisement Congrats to Ryan Martin the new all time leading goals scorer at Winchester High School. — winchesterbvlax (@winchesterbvlax) Newburyport senior Reese Bromby became the program's all-time leading scorer with 263 goals, moving past Molly Rose Kearney's total of 261, set in 2018. Bromby is fourth in Clippers history with 324 points, six behind Lilly Pons ('24) for third. In boys' volleyball, Braintree senior Deon Li surpassed 1,000 career assists last week and Norton junior outside hitter Andrew Strojny was named American Volleyball Coaches Association Player of the Week for May 12-18 after posting 86 kills, 31 digs, 6 aces, and 3 blocks. Congrats to Andrew Strojny for being named AVCA Player of the Week 🎉🎉 Keep up the great work! — Meg Hardiman (@megmroo) Walkoff wins West Bridgewater's Allie Edgerly laid down a suicide squeeze bunt with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh and Haylee Krakowski raced home for a 6-5 win over Old Colony in the preliminary round of the Division 4 tournament. In the Division 5 baseball preliminary round, No. 29 Hull walked off Avon, 4-3, on Logan Griffin's RBI single in the bottom of the seventh. 2. Going, going, gone It wasn't a big day for offensive fireworks, and we already read about Nick Bonasera's would-be blast for Triton. Mohawk Trail got a trio of homers from Bella Brown Stratton , Sadie Wilcox , and Riley Dyer , Milton's Victoria Fish sent one out against Masconomet, and Will Ferguson launched one for Millis in a 2-1 win over Madison Park. 3. Daily lacrosse leaderboard Goals Julia Kipperman , Nauset, 12 Robbie DeGasperis , Milford, 6 Nick Emsing , BC High, 5 Murphy Belvin , BC High, 4 Meghan Daley , North Andover, 4 Ema Luczkow , Dover-Sherborn, 4 Allie Wile , Ipswich, 4 Points Kipperman, Nauset, 12 DeGasperis, Milford, 7 Emsing, BC High, 6 Isa Robinson , North Andover, 6 Luke Allen , BC High, 5 Advertisement Belvin, BC High, 5 Daley, North Andover, 5 Sophia Fina , North Andover, 5 Lyla Greenleaf , Ipswich, 4 Luczkow, Dover-Sherborn, 4 Wile, Ipswich, 4 4. Daily strikeout leaderboard Regan Bryant , West Bridgewater, 15 Charlie Mallett , West Bridgewater, 12 Grace Stevens , Mohawk Trail, 12 Zahria Daley , Milton, 11 Dani Jameson , Mansfield, 10 Ted Hipp , Hull, 10 Andrew Morse , Millis, 7 Josh Roberts , Amesbury, 7 5. Coaching carousel Millis named Connor Moroney as its boys' basketball coach. Moroney has served as an assistant at Franklin and is an assistant football coach at Norton. The New Hampshire graduate teaches physical education at Callahan Elementary in Norwood and has served as camp director of the Sarah Behn Basketball Camps since 2022 and has worked at the Dana Barros Basketball Club in Stoughton. — Millis Athletics (@MillisAthletics) Billerica football brought back 2009 Gatorade Player of the Year Nick LaSpada to coach its quarterbacks. The former Merrimack quarterback has served as an assistant at Phillips Exeter. Nick needs no Introduction to the Billerica community. Billerica High legend and Merrimack College grad will work with the quarterbacks. The 2009 Gatorade player of the year is one of the area's all time great players and leaders. — Shawn Theriault (@TheriaultShawn) Andover High is bringing back Matt Silva as its offensive coordinator. Silva was the Golden Warriors' OC from 2017-21 and has remained on staff coaching Andover's quarterbacks. The two-time Globe All-Scholastic enjoyed a record-setting career at Framingham State before returning to coach at Andover in 2016. Introducing Coach Matt Silva to the 2025 Andover High School Football staff. Coach Silva is no stranger to Andover and we are excited to bring him back. He knows how competitive the MVC is and he brings a lot of experience as both a collegiate player and a former OC and… — Pact Performance (@PactPerformance) 6. Commitment central Milton senior Ryan O'Donnell has committed to play men's soccer at Mass. Maritime. Congratulations to Ryan O'Donnell has he intends to play soccer at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Well 'Cats! — Milton HS Athletics (@MHS_Wildcats_) Holland (formerly Burke) basketball star Yassine Amghar committed to play at Framingham State. The 6-foot point guard averaged 21 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals after transferring from Excel Academy. Congrats to our guy — Burke Boys Basketball (@Burke_MBB) His Bulldogs teammate, senior Jayden White , a 6-4 wing, announced his commitment to Cerro Coso Community College. The hard work, the ups and downs, the sacrifices — it's all worth it. Blessed to commit to Cerro Coso Community College!!! — Jayden White (@jaydenxwhitee) The Greater Lawrence boys' basketball program enjoyed three college commitments in less than 24 hours, with Ebe Efosa and Ellis Macea committing to play at Southern Maine Community College and Darialdy 'Tahko' Lara announcing he will play at Plymouth State. Advertisement 7. College corner UConn women's lacrosse senior Riley Daly , an Ipswich graduate, was selected to play in the IWLCA Senior All-Star game on Saturday at the USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md. Daly was a unanimous All-Big East first team selection after leading the Huskies with 103 draw controls and finishing her career fourth in program history with 151 draw controls. Congratulations to Riley Daly on being selected to play in the — UConn Lacrosse (@UConnWLAX) Joson Sanon , a Fall River native who played one season at Durfee before transferring to Vermont Academy, has withdrawn from the NBA Draft process, 8. Lastly... And here's your feel-good moment of the day: An unforgettable day. Our team headed in to Mass General to watch our team manager Brady Cullen 'Ring the Bell'. The strength and spirit he has show throughout this process has been absolutely remarkable -an inspiration to us all. — North Reading Baseball (@NRHSBaseball1) Brendan Kurie can be reached at
Boston Globe
7 days ago
- Sport
- Boston Globe
MIAA boys' lacrosse tournament: Favorites, sleepers, players to watch, Divisions 1-4
St. John's Prep is looking to win a fifth straight Division 1 title, but rival BC High has secured the top seed in D1. The field is wide open in Division 2 with red-hot Billerica checking in as the top seed ahead of defending champion Longmeadow. Medfield is the prohibitive favorite to repeat in Division 3 and Cohasset has a good shot to win a seventh state title by running through the Division 4 bracket this spring. Advertisement Here is a deeper dive on all four brackets: Division 1 Favorite: No. 2 St. John's Prep. Sleepers: No. 8 Bishop Feehan, No. 9 Xaverian Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Players to watch: attack Nick Emsing (BC High), long-stick midfielder Flynn Baker (Franklin), midfielder Cooper Masso (Bishop Feehan), attack Ryan Martin (Winchester), long pole Jack Weissenburger (St. John's Prep). Best first-round matchup: Monday, No. 19 Newton North (10-8) at No. 14 Natick (13-5), 7 p.m. Longest first-round road trip: Saturday, No. 25 Barnstable at No. 8 Bishop Feehan — 69.5 miles. Analysis: While St. John's Prep is not the top seed, the defending champions will still have home field advantage until the tournament moves to predetermined sites in the state semifinals. BC High arguably draws a tougher side of the bracket with capable sleepers Bishop Feehan and Xaverian vying for a state quarterfinals bid against the top seed. Prep returned 22 seniors from last year's state title team and boasts a nearly impenetrable defense to go along with another faceoff specialist (junior Will Crawford) who is among the best in the region. After Needham made a run to the state finals last year, Lincoln-Sudbury, Andover, and Acton-Boxborough stand out as the public schools capable of crashing the party with a deep tournament run. The last public school to win the title in 2019, L-S went 12-4 against the hardest schedule in the state this season per the MIAA power rankings. New head coach Chris Baker leads Franklin in the tournament for the first time, Jon Smith makes his state tournament debut as Concord-Carlisle coach, and Adam Pascal is steering the ship at Catholic Memorial after helping Belmont Hill win the ISL last spring. George Jenkins, the new head coach at Newton North, spent nine years coaching at Natick, and those Bay State rivals face off in the first round. Advertisement Division 2 Favorites: No. 1 Billerica, No. 2 Longmeadow Sleepers: No. 6 Reading, No. 10 Westwood Players to watch: midfielder Charlie Carroll (Marshfield), attack Tommy Farrell (North Andover), midfielder Brayden Mattera (Walpole), attack Cole Hogencamp (Mansfield), long-stick midfielder Aedan Milligan (Hingham). Best first-round matchup: Sunday, No. 26 Masconomet (13-5) at No. 7 Marshfield (12-5), 4 p.m. Longest first-round road trip: Monday, No. 18 West Springfield at No. 15 Plymouth South — 131 miles. Analysis: This division is sure to present fascinating matchups in June with at least eight teams clearly capable of navigating a minefield for a state title. Billerica enters the fray on a 17-game win streak, Longmeadow has won two of the past three titles, Reading has won two of the past five titles, Hingham has been a powerhouse in D1 and D2 depending on alignment, Duxbury is looking to get back to the mountaintop after losing in the state final two years ago, Mansfield's star-studded young roster is taking the program to new heights, Walpole's offense is explosive, and Marshfield has a strong core led by senior Charlie Carroll and junior Jon Sullivan. Advertisement Beyond those top eight seeds, No. 9 King Philip managed to defeat Franklin in May for the first time in nine years, and No. 12 North Andover boasts a dangerous offense. Westwood hosts Tri-Valley League rival Hopkinton in the first round a couple weeks after winning that matchup, 11-8. Coming off the program's first Northeastern Conference title, Masconomet is much better than your typical No. 26 seed, and the depth of contenders in this bracket continues down the line with No. 17 Silver Lake, No. 21 Grafton, and No. 33 Whittier capable of surprising foes. Division 3 Favorite: No. 1 Medfield Sleepers: No. 6 Newburyport, No. 8 Wakefield Players to watch: goalie Zach Coelho (Nauset), long-stick midfielder Ben Lusby (Medfield), midfielder Willy Robinson (Scituate), attack Carter Scott (Newburyport), midfielder Travis Smith (Falmouth). Best first-round matchup: No. 22 Apponequet (14-3) at No. 11 Shawsheen (17-1), TBA Longest road trip: Friday, No. 21 Bishop Stang at No. 12 Dover-Sherborn — 58.3 miles. Analysis: Medfield has taken down some of the top D1 and D2 programs in the state and lost close ones late to Longmeadow and Reading. That sets the stage to focus on winning a second straight title and the program's ninth championship over the past two decades. Most of their challengers come from the south, with No. 5 Scituate, and No. 2 Nauset and No. 3 Falmouth bringing back key pieces from their final four teams. Newburyport is loaded offensively and getting healthy at the right time. Wakefield is a strong program from the Middlesex League and No. 10 Burlington surged after rough first half of the season. Dover-Sherborn looks to make a run under new head coach Dan Morris and No. 18 Bedford can lean on the postseason experience of longtime Concord-Carlisle coach Tom Dalicandro, now an assistant under first-year coach Brad Sylvester. By sheer coincidence, Shawsheen hosts Apponequet in a great first-round rematch after Apponequet took down the visiting Rams, 13-11, in a first-round matchup last spring. Advertisement Division 4 Favorites: No. 1 Cohasset, No. 3 Norwell Sleepers: No. 9 Lynnfield, No. 11 Abington Players to watch: midfielder Kelan Cardinal (Lynnfield), attack Liam Keaney (Swampscott), attack Quinn Gary (Weston), midfielder Jack McCavanagh (Manchester Essex), attack Finn Wright (Ipswich). Best first-round matchup: Friday, No. 23 South Shore Vo-Tech (16-2) at No. 10 Pentucket (12-6), 4:30 p.m. Longest road trip: Saturday, No. 29 Lenox Memorial at No. 4 Nantucket — 219 miles. Analysis: Shane Mulcahy netted the overtime winner in Cohasset's 12-11 victory over Norwell May 19 in a South Shore League clash that could have been a state final preview. Both programs won titles in 2023, as Norwell clinched a second straight D3 championship before shifting down to D4 in 2024. A few Cape Ann League programs are capable of breaking up the South Shore showdown with No. 5 Ipswich, No. 7 Manchester Essex, and No. 9 Lynnfield boasting impressive resumes. Don't leave out No. 2 Weston, which closed the season with impressive wins over Masconomet, Concord-Carlisle, and Manchester Essex. Plus there is defending champion and fourth-seeded Nantucket, which closed last season on an 18-game win streak. Down the table, No. 15 Swampscott and No. 16 Winthrop have been battle-tested against bigger programs in the Northeastern Conference, and No. 23 South Shore Vo-Tech is undefeated aside from two close nonleague losses to No. 11 Abington. Advertisement Nate Weitzer can be reached at
Boston Globe
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Michael Ryan sends Braintree into the postseason with win over BC High in memory of former coach
With runners at the corners with one out in the bottom of the seventh of a tie game, Ryan was elated when his single landed in right field, scoring pinch runner Colin Kasey for a 3-2 nonleague victory over BC High at Monan Park. Braintree was the tournament host, but the games were shifted to the turf at BC High because of wet field conditions. '[Braintree coach Bill O'Connell] told me I might have to bunt,' Ryan said. 'Didn't want to bunt, so I swung. Always wanted to hit a walkoff, so just had to make it happen. I was running down, saw my boys chasing after me. Nothing better. It means everything, especially to coach. It was big for him.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up His base hit was just one of three for the 12th-ranked Wamps (14-8). Advertisement Braintree second baseman Ben Phan dives up the middle to stop a ground ball off the bat of BC High's Wyatt Miller in the fifth inning. Ken McGagh for The Boston Globe No. 10 BC High (11-9) led into the bottom of the sixth before surrendering a run on a throwing error. Matt Rogers tapped a bunt to reliever Adam Bushley, who overthrew third, allowing Connor Grieve to score. Grieve advanced from first to second on a passed ball. 'We had energy all the innings,' Grieve said. 'We knew this was going to be a tough game, coming to BC High, playing them in a big game. I mean, we just wanted to beat a private school. We haven't really won a really big game this year. This was the one.' Advertisement Grieve earned tournament MVP honors by hurling a complete game with two strikeouts. He surrendered six hits, a walk, and two earned runs, but never came off the mound and got the job finished. He was went also 1 for 2 with a single, a walk, a stolen base, and a run. Braintree's Connor Grieve was named tournament MVP with a complete game victory against BC High and also went 1 for 2 with a run scored. Ken McGagh for The Boston Globe Max Bohane led the Eagles with two hits — a double and a single — in three at-bats, and Wyatt Miller and Jackson Richard plated BC High's two runs on singles, respectively. But when Ryan walked it off in the seventh, there was no shortage of emotion on the Braintree side, starting with O'Connell, because of his longstanding relationship with the revered Fredericks, who 'He said he's got trust in me to keep the legacy going that he built,' O'Connell said. 'You know, we're doing it. I think we're doing a decent job with it. Right up to the end, he came and saw us and just wished us well. He said 'Keep it going.' So we decided to do something in his honor.'
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
BC High teens cheer choice of American pope
The choice of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope caught just about everyone by surprise -- including students at BC High, who watched the historic moment in the school's common area. 'I think him being an American pope is going to change some things and is going to be a benefit,' said Senior Robert Le. 'Personally I was rooting for the Filipino,' said Senior Dante Minacapilli, 'But I think it's a cool choice to have someone from the US as pope.' Minacapilli said Prevost's background as an international missionary can help build bridges. 'He's worked in Peru and so spent a lot of time in other countries doing missionary work,' he said. 'I think that could be really great to connect Americans with other countries globally and have more empathy across the world.' What the students most want to see, it seems, more of the same. 'As a young person of faith, I hope he keeps the same values as Pope Francis,' said Senior Henry Sulce. 'We've learned a lot about him in my religion class and his environmental work, so I'm really hoping we can continue that because that's really important to our generation,' said Senior Gerard Sharkey. Father John Predmore, an artist and faculty member at BC High, called the selection of Prevost brilliant. 'This is a move to strengthen the worker's rights and it's a move to carry on some of Francis's agenda,' he said. And, I think, to go even deeper than what Francis was able to do." Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
