Dunes!

The alleged abuse happened in Colorado when he was assigned to U. of Detroit High School in 2001. The Jesuits turned him in:

Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ron Hanavan told the Associated Press that Kurtz’s order, the Society of Jesus Chicago-Detroit Province, notified the department in June about the alleged assault, and an arrest warrant was issued on Nov. 18. Police also say this case has no connection with any Colorado church.

Kurtz was booked in the Chicago jail today on $100,000 bond.

They had no choice, of course.

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Quite a bit more from CBS Chicago, adding to the AP report:

The province said in a written statement Monday that in 2001, when a report of misconduct first surfaced, it reported the allegation to authorities in Michigan.

The province also has a policy under which it reports abuse allegations to authorities in the place where the conduct is said to have occurred. The province said it has been cooperating with Colorado authorities since April. It wasn’t immediately clear why the report was only made this year.

Kurtz was removed from public ministry soon after the initial allegation was received, the province said. The Jesuits said Kurtz’s activities have been restricted since then. It didn’t say where Kurtz was working at the time of his arrest.

The case has been turned over to prosecutors who will decide whether to charge Kurtz.

Larry Kudlow is not weeping over the floperoo of the super committee:

In an important sense, the whole super-committee debate from the Democratic side was about taxing the rich. They never went quite as far as President Obamas populist class-warfare rant, at least not publically. But basically this logjam was about so-called tax fairness.

Main thing: “we dodged a super tax hike and got a couple trillion dollars of lower spending. Not the worst thing in the world.”

This fellow Leftfooter has the scene put to rhyme!

Not kidding. Nor was this priest in his light-hearted verse.

Google “water plant in Springfield, Ill. had been damaged” as in the Wash Post story about Russia-located hackers getting into a control system, and you find that Chicago papers have nada.

I did find an interesting piece in the online Trib about “feral swines” [sic] and the harm they do, however. Yes, swines are troublesome, but the mooses are no bargain either.

Jan. 1, the “Anglican ordinariate” is coming to the U.S. It’s Vatican-approved and -affiliated Anglicanism, maybe to a parish near you. Its priests and people will bring “the Anglican patrimony.” A few of the good things they bring:

1. Good hymns 2. Good education 3. Good sense of self deprecating humor 4. Good taste in dry sherry 5. Good understanding of the importance of lace and incense 6. Good literary sense 7. Good boost to the Western tradition 8. words like “vouchsafe” 9. good Choral evensong 10. good knowledge of architecture 11. good Englishness 12. good sense of the need for Evangelization. 13. Good missionary spirit. 14. Good hats 15. Good down to earth spirituality.

Dry sherry? Not the wet kind?

And reduce their buying power.

. . . he says.

It was other people’s money, so what, he worry?

This lady is against “insider dawdgie trading.”

[It’s almost at the end, 3:30 or so. Or
listen to it all, since it’s a pretty good exchange, if frenetic as
usual.]

When you put it that way, it’s a no-brainer.