KANSAS CITY(MO)
National Catholic Reporter
November 19, 2018
by Heidi Schlumpf
After public discussion raised several criticisms of a possible new commission to receive and investigate accusations of misconduct by bishops, a retired prelate of Tucson, Arizona, suggested using a church structure already in place: metropolitans, or the archbishops who oversee ecclesiastical provinces — in the U.S., usually a state.
Now some are saying that alternative plan was hatched in advance of the annual bishops’ meeting in Baltimore by two-high ranking cardinals — a charge at least one of them vehemently denies.
“At no time prior to the Baltimore meeting did the two of us collaborate in developing, nor even talk about, an alternative plan,” Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told Crux on Sunday.
Cupich called “false” a news story that alleged that he and Cardinal Donald Wuerl worked on the alternative plan “for weeks” and presented it to the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops before the four-day meeting of the U.S. prelates last week.
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