MINNESOTA
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
The former Chancellor of the St. PAUL Archdiocese (USA), a woman canon lawyer, is in effect challenging the man whom the successor of St. PETER has serving as bishop.
Amazingly, their scholastic dispute is mainly over whether the pornographic performers on a priest’s computer file were as young as a “child”. You can’t make this stuff up.
The female Chancellor bravely quit in protest. She is holding her ground against her bishop, an arch anti-gay marriage activist. She is proving, single handedly, what a difference a woman makes, in a world of childless celibates, when it comes to protecting children, among other things.
She is also likely giving many in the Catholic hierarchy in the USA and the Vatican some real nightmares, since she likely knows even more “secrets”. This bold woman is not clamming up like Philly’s Cardinal Rigali’s Secretary, Msgr. Lynn, did.
Reportedly, the police seemed to have bungled the child pornography case so far, accepting apparently at face value weak explanations from the Archdiocesan staff and its lawyers. Hopefully, the local state prosecutors will call for a full grand jury soon. This could make Philly’s Msgr. Lynn’s conviction pale by comparison.
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