Wednesday, April 13, 2005
"Become a Nun, Save the Church, Get Fired"
A most interesting chant of protest against a JP2 bishop, don't you think? The latest on those campus ministry sisters getting fired includes VOTF showing up to picket-n-pray at the chancery, and a dialogue with a prioress, president, and the bishop in question. We have learned that Bishop Murphy was "personally upset" over the hubbub resulting from these dismissals. Say what? Do we care? Maybe some Ladies Blue Auxiliary can bake him a pie.
Person to person, and as a friend, I suppose I care if someone is upset. But either one of two things is going on here:
1. The bishop made a tough, unpopular, but necessary decision. In which case, he should be mature enough to ride the storm out. Courage of his convictions and all.
2. The bishop flubbed the call and why shouldn't people be calling for his head on a pike?
I'm not sure I buy the notion that just because a bishop is incompetent in getting priest predators out of innocents' way, he's clueless with other personnel decisions. Then again, do these guys take any courses at all in business ethics? Some St Blogger will probably try and tell me this is all about the lavender cabal taking over the Church. I think I'm sticking to the power corrupts theory. That glass slipper is a suspiciously close fit on Long Island.
