This pic is from today’s Dems of Oak Park e-blast for its Get out OUR Vote! campaign:
But didn’t the West Wing character do that all the time? Play with a rubber ball? A little fantasizing here? Actually, downsizing the prez, since the West Wing fellow was a mere aide. But showing O. as the shirtsleeved easy-goer, cool fella, our kind of guy. I think that’s the idea, but I’m not sure.
SNAP has studied the matter:
—256 of the Chicago archdiocese’s roughly 400 parishes have, at one time, had an accused pedophile priest working there,
– 30 parishes had two or more alleged predator priests assigned to them at one time, and
– a disproportionate percentage of parishes in lower income neighborhoods had accused priests working at hem.
The leaders:
Two parishes have had five accused priests [each] (St. Leonard in Berwyn and St. Aloysius in Chicago). Six have had four accused priests [each] (Holy Innocents in Chicago, St. Christina in Chicago, St. Eulalia in Maywood, St. John Vianney in Northlake, St. Thomas of Villanova in Palatine, and Resurrection Life Center in Chicago).
Maybe a new group? Priests who Stood by Unknowing or Uncertain (PSUU)? In silence, that is. Many of them feeling not so good at this point, I bet.
Latest from the Church Reporter:
(POSTED: 10/11/10) The amazing thing about the Rev. Timothy Radcliffe at Dominican U.-River Forest on Sept. 30 was that he was completely interesting and engaging. He was scripture prof at U. of Oxford, where he studied, there and in Paris. He’s past provincial for English Dominicans and past master (general) for the Dominicans worldwide. He gives retreats around the world, writes books on spirituality, etc. Who knew that he’d make a terrific talk-show host?His talk was all about love, and a trifle airy at times, but this was a Caritas et Veritas lecture (Love & Truth), and anyhow he salted it with apt citations and anecdotes. It was easy listening.
As to questions, which do tend to be idiosyncratic and overly complicated, he demonstrated much aplomb.
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More more more at Chicago Catholic News.
Aimed at the Teleprompter, we presume.
Blithe Spirit 