MINNESOTA
Canonical Consultation

Jennifer Haselberger

Earlier today, the National Catholic Reporter posted a series of amusing tweets about Archbishop Nienstedt’s use of the word ‘trouble’ in his column introducing last week’s disastrous financial report for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Specifically, NCR picked up on the Archbishop’s unfortunate decision to place the word in quotation marks, a grammatical device generally used to indicate irony. This choice leaves the reader wondering if the Archbishop truly understands how serious the situation is, or if he instead views the present state of the Archdiocese as really no problem at all.

It would appear that at least one person on the staff of the NCR (reporter Brian Roewe) is both an astute reader and a fan of The Music Man, and he playfully suggested a tweet riffing on the song ‘Ya Got Trouble’ to introduce his article on the financial report:…