Child molester Mary Kay LeTourneau is back in the news, but not for what you would think: Letourneau, 51, was arrested on suspicion of driving with a suspended license and booked into King County Jail. A year ago, she’d been cited for driving with a suspended license after failing to pay her tickets. She didn’t show up at…Continue reading Women abuse, too, part 2 —The predator mindset
If you read nothing else this week, check out OC Weekly‘s Father John Lenihan and Me, Gustavo Arellano’s introspective piece on the recent release of serial molester Fr. John Lenihan’s secret personnel file. Gustavo, who is usually not the poster child for humility, sums up the past few years of the news coverage of the child…Continue reading Why we must fight
This week, The Gallup Independent published a scathing editorial about the bankruptcy proceedings in the Catholic Diocese of Gallup. From the editorial: [Bishop James] Wall and his bankruptcy attorneys — who are billing the diocese hundreds of dollars per hour — are already dragging the process out in an unjust, inequitable and unmerciful manner by…Continue reading Gallup’s Moral Bankruptcy
I have been brewing about the bankruptcy debacle in Gallup for the past few days. And I keep coming up with the same fable: Mortimer Snerd gets a speeding ticket. Instead of paying the ticket or going to traffic school (that is, being accountable for what he has done), our pal Snerd goes to the…Continue reading Gallup, Budgets, Insurance, and Game-Playing
*Like part one, part two is not available online* Scroll down to the italicized section (emphasis is mine). It seems that all of the “Unknown real estate values” that Bishop Wall wrung his hands over were actually known and itemized in a 2012 audit. Judges have a tendency to come down hard on that kind of…Continue reading Diocese questioned about finances – Published in the Gallup Independent, Gallup, NM, Dec. 28, 2013