The Nation - News from Sept. 11, 1989

More than a thousand worshipers cheered as Father George A. Stallings Jr. called for a boycott of businesses that advertise in the Washington Post, and he denounced allegations published in the Post that he had a sexual relationship 12 years ago with an altar boy. “We’re going to get you, Washington Post, because of your sleazy journalism, because of your obsession to create a story where there is no story,” the dissident Roman Catholic priest told a packed auditorium. Post Managing Editor Leonard Downie Jr. later said in reply: “We believe we have treated the Rev. Stallings fairly.”