Witnesses question accounts of homicide case tied to Daley nephew, says Sun-Times.
The police reports also attribute statements to friends of [the deceased David] Koschman and to a bystander described by prosecutors as one of the two unbiased witnesses that they say they didnt make or that distort what they told detectives.
Koschmans friends recently told the police theyd be willing to take lie-detector tests.
Instead, the Police Department closed the recently reopened case on March 1 without seeking criminal charges. The police concluded that the 6-foot-3, 230-pound Vanecko threw the punch that knocked the 5-foot-5, 140-pound Koschman to the street, where he struck his head, causing a brain injury that killed him 11 days later but that Vanecko acted in self-defense. They reached that conclusion without speaking to Vanecko, who they say ran away afterward and has refused to speak with detectives.
“The evidence [in a 500-page Indiana Dept of Labor
report, four months in the making] overwhelmingly demonstrated that the university made a decision to utilize its scissor lifts in known adverse weather conditions,” said Lori Torres, a state Department of Labor commissioner, describing the “knowing citation” issued against Notre Dame as “the most serious safety violation.”
Response:
In a statement, Notre Dame President John I. Jenkins reiterated his concession of last November that “we failed to keep [Declan Sullivan] safe, and for that we remain profoundly sorry.”
Chi Trib has this Dept. of Labor story in great detail, yesterday and today, where this:
INDIANAPOLIS Despite insisting the weather was uneventful even beautiful the day Declan Sullivan toppled to his death last fall while filming football practice, members of the University of Notre Dame athletic department worried about the safety of another student videographer and initially kept her from going up in a lift because of stiff winds, newly released records show.
Point is, people get hired on what basis and with what vetting, and they hire people on what basis etc. Top-down, we have Fr. Jenkins being hired and hiring, etc. All of it contributes. You fudge this issue, you fudge that one, and next thing you know, the enterprise begins to lose lustre.
Rev. Michael Pfleger in talks with archdiocese to take over struggling Leo High School, a few blocks from the St. Sabina rectory, says Jay Levine of CBS-2, as carried by Sun-Times.
To which Pfleger: neither confirm nor deny:
I’m in discussions with the Archdiocese but you know those are private conversations at this point and I cant comment at this point about those conversations.
Some creative thinking here?
Later: He’s going to fight this, says a Blithe Spirit source.
Yet later: He’s mobilizing the troops:
In response to the news broadcasts about St. Sabina, The Cabinet is holding a Parish Town Hall Meeting in the Church Sanctuary on Thursday, March 17th at 7pm. This meeting is for St. Sabina Members only.
Christ is made the sure foundation, . . . the entrance hymn for the Popes [recent] visit to Westminster Abbey: with its magnificent tune by Henry Purcell and equally majestic words by John Mason Neale (from a seventh-century Latin hymn) . . . it was such stuff as ceremonial dreams are made on.
Which begins:
Christ is made the sure foundation,
Christ the head and cornerstone,
chosen of the Lord, and precious,
binding all the Church in one;
holy Zions help for ever,
and her confidence alone.
All that dedicated city,
dearly loved of God on high,
in exultant jubilation
pours perpetual melody;
God the One in Three adoring
in glad hymns eternally.
Not for everyone, but there’s always Ray Repp, the guitar man, heh.
The ordinariate allows Anglicans to enter the Catholic Church while retaining “a love and gratitude for the Anglican forms of faith and worship.”
The ordinariate website explains that an interim governing council is meeting regularly to oversee the development of the organization. An official governing council will be formed after Easter 2011.
The governing council will have at least six priests, presided over by the ordinary. Half of the membership is elected by the priests of the ordinariate. It will have a pastoral council for consultation with the laity and a finance council.
The council will have the same rights and responsibilities in canon law that the college of consultors and the council of priests have in the governance of a diocese. Out of respect for the synodal tradition of Anglicanism, the ordinary will need the consent of the governing council to admit a candidate to Holy Orders and to erect or suppress a personal parish or a house of formation.
The council will also have a vote in choosing a list of names of a new ordinary to submit to the Holy See. [Italics added]
These last two items demonstrate a distinctly reformist trend in Roman Catholicism. Stay tuned.
More: This England and Wales ordinariate “would probably be a model for what we would do here in the U.S.,” said Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Wash DC a few weeks. He has been named point man for ordinariate-organizing in the U.S.
Emerging Anglican Catholic Ordinariates are for Roman Catholics who worship largely in Anglican ways. Refugees from the Anglican Communion. Non-refugees may find here a more reverent mass etc.
Blithe Spirit 