WORCESTER (MA)
Telegram & Gazette

By Dianne Williamson
dwilliamson@telegram.com

Many readers have encouraged me to indulge in a so-called “field day” with the circumstances of Bishop Robert J. McManus’s unfortunate arrest for drunken driving in Rhode Island.

Some misguided folks have assumed that I would take perverse glee in the news that the local diocese’s moral and spiritual leader was bagged last weekend for having one too many in, of all places, Narragansett. Some believed that I would find such an incident irresistible, given that the bishop rarely hesitates to pass stern judgment on the perceived foibles of others.

One local wag even suggested that I refer to the bishop as Robert “Manhattan” McManus, which I refuse to do partly out of respect, but mainly because the moniker isn’t all that funny and I trust we could do better.

Truly, I take no pleasure in the arrest of…