Proclaiming his chastity, as the NYTimes puts it

Bishop Hubbard has promised to take a lie detector test. His aides have organized a media blitz, which included inviting five local television stations to hear his story Thursday, and meeting with the editorial boards of the local newspapers. A recent issue of the diocesan paper, The Evangelist, devoted eight pages to the case under the rubric “Bishop Fights Back.”

“I feel that I’ve been stripped of my dignity,” a weary-seeming Bishop Hubbard said last week in an interview after the group TV appearance. “I feel very embarrassed and very humiliated.” Add to that fear, anger, pain and disappointment, he said. “But with it all, I really am at peace because I know that I am innocent.”