Thursday, January 24, 2008
BUSINESS AS USUAL IN CHICAGO
The Sun Times reports on the promotions received by top leaders of the Chicago Diocese after they were instrumental in enabling convicted priest Rev. Daniel McCormack to molest boys, including one appointment to the presidency of the USCCB, and three promotions to auxiliary bishop. One could almost get the opinion that enabling sexual abuse in Chicago is the fast track for promotion. What words are left to express the sense of being scandalized yet again? They have all been used so many times that there is nothing left to say except express your outrage with your contribution to the collection basket. Unless the men in charge get a loud and clear message from the laity that this is unacceptable, nothing will change, and the only message they hear is the money message.
Apparently we cannot count on Rome to clean the mess up.
