>> St. Anthony's Seminary, a residential high school for boys, once was attached to the mission but closed in 1987. An investigation commissioned by the Franciscans later concluded that 25 percent of the friars who worked there had molested students.
Father Jurisich, the U.S. Franciscan leader who oversees Brother Chumik, was rector of the seminary for several years and has begged forgiveness for the abuse. Like Cardinal Mahony, he has portrayed himself as a reformer on abuse issues. <<
TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT???
Come on people. Even a Franciscan has to have enough Gay-dar to have sensed something wasn't right
Not to worry, God knows who the stumbling blocks are.
28 And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.
"But Brother Chumik said he spends much of his time tending geraniums and rare plants."
If only he had confined spreading his seed to "geraniums and rare plants".