Day: February 6, 2008

Father McGuire

Rev. Donald McGuire, SJ, is charged again, this time in federal court in Chicago:

McGuire, once a spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa, is charged with traveling with the teen to Austria, Switzerland and Nicaragua and with traveling interstate to Minnesota to engage in sex with him.

The offenses are alleged to have occurred in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

He is said to be in ill health, but his nephew, lawyer for complainants in a separate civil case being tried in Wisconsin, doesn’t believe it:

As for Father McGuire’s claims that he’s in failing health, his nephew calls that  a “gimmick” and a “ploy for sympathy.”  In his words, “Father McGuire has been dying for 40 years.”

Free on appeal from an earlier Wisconsin conviction, he is living in an Oak Lawn apartment.

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Sense

“Despite his flaws as a candidate,” says John Hinderaker in an arresting call for “a reality check” by conservatives at this moment of history, “John McCain has at least one major strength: he might actually win.”

He cites Hugh Hewitt, Roger Simon, and Bill Whittle per Glenn Reynolds as help towards performing such a check, in addition to his own, concluding persuasively:

So, let’s finish out the primary season. It’s not over yet, lightning could strike, and Romney might wind up as our nominee. Most likely, though, John McCain will be the Republican standard-bearer. We could do a whole lot worse. Within the party, it’s time to dial down the hyperbole, quit burning bridges and start building them.

We could do worse, indeed.

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