He's probably going to go after Gerry Matatics. He's been hounding the man trying to destroy him after Gerry stopped working for him years ago. They had a disagreement over finances. (basically one didn't want to pay the other what he'd agreed to)
Gerry has since become a traditionalist Catholic and that spells trouble for the other guy.
"He's probably going to go after Gerry Matatics."
I think you are probably right. If not him then perhaps Bob Sungenis or Chris Ferrara?
"He's probably going to go after Gerry Matatics. He's been hounding the man trying to destroy him after Gerry stopped working for him years ago. They had a disagreement over finances. (basically one didn't want to pay the other what he'd agreed to)"
Since you were not present, let me explain what actually happened. Gerry and Catholic Answers agreed on a salary, and that amount was paid when due throughout the seven months that Gerry worked with Catholic Answers.
On the side Gerry had an agreement with San Diego businessman Scott Butler, who later was the co-author of the book "Jesus, Peter, and the Keys." Scott agreed to subsidize Gerry at $300 per month, to help underwrite Gerry's housing expenses.
This was generous on Scott's part, but he and Gerry had a falling out, and Scott decided not to provide the subsidy any longer. Gerry's employment with Catholic Answers was not conditioned on the Scott-Gerry agreement. Gerry had agreed to the salary we offered before arriving in San Diego and meeting Scott.
Gerry's departure from Catholic Answers had nothing to do with finances, though he later spun the story that way.
Side note:
Part way through his time with Catholic Answers, Gerry came to me and said that he was finding it difficult to work on his Ph.D. dissertation in the evenings. He said he would be more valuable to Catholic Answers if he got his Ph.D. and said he wanted to stay home one day a week to work on it, while drawing a salary predicated on working five days a week, not four.
I interpreted him to mean that he would leave Catholic Answers if I did not agree to this arrangement. Not wanting him to leave, I reluctantly agreed. He worked four days a week for us, and was paid for five, until he left the company.
Later I learned that Gerry had not been working on his dissertation. A Ph.D. student does not work on his dissertation until his advisor and committee have signed off on the topic. According to Scott Hahn, Gerry never even had an advisor or a committee, so he could not have had an approved dissertation topic to work on.
Since Gerry finalged a way to get paid for five days' work while working only four days, he was making good money and had no cause for complaint.