MINNESOTA
Canonical Consultation

02/09/2015

Jennifer Haselberger

Since I posted the letter from the mediator last Friday, I have gotten a number of telephone calls and emails from people asking what the letter means. For those of you who are pastors or parish staff, it means you need to discuss the situation with your parish leadership and an informed attorney. For anyone else, let me give you some suggestions as to what it might mean. But first, a caveat: these are just some possible reasons why the letter was sent. There may be other reasons of which I am unaware, or information not currently available that would change my assessment.

The first reason is, I believe, undisputed. All parties involved in the mediation want access to the parishes’ insurance policies, including those in which the parish is an ‘additional insured’ with the Archdiocese and vice versa. The goal of…