Dallas priest challenges transfer over background checks

Dallas Morning News ^ | 4/16/2002 | Kristen Holland

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Hint: let lay people do some of the work.

If you can find enough volunteers that would enjoy a background check prior to volunteering.

[SelmerTS111281]

I doubt anyone enjoys a background check, however for the safety of my children, I accept it as necessary.

TS

[sinkspur]

I don't think the pope is going to can anybody. He also won't discourage anybody who may want to resign.

Popes and bishops have always been very reluctant to yield to public pressure of any kind, even in a situation like this.

I'd be very surprised if Law didn't try to talk his way out of trouble.

[sinkspur]

Hang around. I'm pinging slyfox, who is a St. Thomas parishioner. She's very vocal in her support of Bierschenk.

I'm sorry I missed his TV appearance as I am in Houston.

Attempting to go over the bishop's head is not a smart move.

[Slyfox]

Just for the record, Fr. Bierschenk was not lying when he told the bishop that all the teachers had had their background checks done. The CCD teachers found to not have their checks on file were actually public school teachers who already had background checks done on them. It was considered prudent to not waste the money to preform yet another background check on them. But, true to form, the chancery ignored that information when it was made apparent to them that they had made an error. Father Bierschenk was needlessly smeared.