Nice work, SNAP

You may be interested in a conversation between IL Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke with (Cdl) George when Fr. Martin’s presence was disclosed at George’s mansion.

“Anne Burke will always remember (when) a nationally famous bishop who gave her complete assurance that all instances of sexual hanky-panky were brought to a dead halt in his diocese. The next morning she opened a newspaper and found that the bishop was on the front page, having welcomed a priest-sexual predator as a house guest. (See ”http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2003_03_01_ChicagoSunTimes_GeorgeDidnt_Kenneth_J_Martin_1.htm">http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2003_03_01_ChicagoSunTimes_GeorgeDidnt_Kenneth_J_Martin_1.htm)

She called the bishop. “Yesterday you assured me that all matters involving the diocese had been cleaned up,” she said. “You know, you lied to me, didn’t you?”

He said the priest was being used for a theological research job.

She continued, “You lied to me, didn’t you.”

“No, I didn’t.”

“Well, the priest you hired was convicted.”

“No he wasn’t.”

“Really?”

“He pled guilty. That’s what happened.”

“Same thing.”

“Well, not exactly-pleading guilty is not the same as being tried and

found guilty.”

Burke smiled at that effort at the futile attempt to apply theological hair-splitting to the law. It may make it in a university theological seminar but not in a courtroom.

“Why did he try to snow me?” she said to this reporter. “Did he think he could get away with it because-well, he didn’t.”

Thomas F. Roeser, (1928-2011) Chicago-based conservative writer and broadcaster on his blog tomroeser.com
8/24/2006

Mary Ellen Kruger is right.

I am incensed at the rude, insensitive conduct of the priest at mass toward the victim’s mother. That was cruelly hurtful and he needs to be publicly identified and publicly apologize to the mother. If such conduct is not sanctioned by Bishop Conlon, he should say so openly.

My God, is there no decency on the part of that priest?