He came from a working-class Irish-Catholic home, and had a populist political philosophy and a certain ambivalence about religion due to being sexually molested by his priest, Father Bill Egan, when he was a child.
He came from a working-class Irish-Catholic home. He had a populist political philosophy about religion due to being sexually molested by his priest. He had a certain ambivalence about religion due to being sexually molested by his priest. Father Bill Egan was his priest. He was a child.