[sinkspur]

Anyway...just providing a plausable and charitable explanation.

As is your wont, which puts you heads and shoulders above me in the charity department.

This man, Bishop O'Brien, signed a consent agreement with the DA, in which he admitted to shielding, protecting, and transferring sexual predators and not informing new parishes of their histories, then came out on the court house steps and said he didn't admit to anything!

You know, when I go to confession, I'm pretty hard on myself, because I have every reason to be. I want these guys to ADMIT IN PUBLIC what they've done, and just say, "I'm sorry," instead of equivocating and trotting out every sorry excuse in the book for why they did what they did.

Just "I'm sorry," then shut up.

A Catholic bishop has killed a man with his car, and that Catholic bishop is finished as the bishop of Phoenix.

Castrillon-Hoyos needs to be lining up the next episcopabili for the American southwest.

[Jeff Chandler]

>>...that Catholic bishop is finished as the bishop of Phoenix. <<

I was considering starting a resignation pool before this happened. I figured it would take 3 months to a year, but his days as bishop are really numbered now.

[Jeff Chandler]

I was fuming at the characterization of his actions protecting the predators as "misjudgement". Putting compassion for and fraternity with the wolves over the safety of the sheep is not misjudgement, it is betrayal.

[St.Chuck]

I want these guys to ADMIT IN PUBLIC what they've done, and just say, "I'm sorry," instead of equivocating and trotting out every sorry excuse in the book for why they did what they did.

I don't think that is asking too much. While their reasons for acting in the manner they did, and making the decisions they did might be understandable, the complete refusal to acknowlege the harm caused is pretty reprehensible. May God have mercy on all our souls.