I spent a number of years at Marquette U. During the period, the Archbishop of Milwaukee (Cousins) lived ACROSS THE STREET from MU and I NEVER saw him on campus.
Loyola, like Marquette, is a Jebby school. On the other hand, CU is a school run by the US Bishops, and the Bishop of Washington DC can be found there often, as you have related.
Further, your analogy re: Pelligrini v. your family friend is similarly flawed. For openers, your friend had a family; Pellegrini seemed to live alone and certainly was not married with children. BIG difference.
In the case at hand, Bernardin seemingly had no one to whom to offer 'help.' This is not like offering to bring a meal for the sake of the mother.
He just showed up at a murder scene.
I don't think it's as faulty as you think.
Washington, DC also sports a Jesuit institution: Georgetown University. Our archbishop doesn't have the same relationship with GU as with CUA. Yet, our last cardinal archbishop, James Cardinal Hickey, made his presence felt there, as well, to the point of intervening in the administration of the university at times.
Certainly, the ordinary of the diocese may decline to be involved with the Catholic institutions of higher learning in his see.
But the bishop may also choose to have a greater level of involvement, as well. I don't know what was Cardinal Bernadin's level of involvement at Loyola. I do know that it isn't unreasonable to think that the men knew each other through that nexus.
My friend who died lived with her sister, and had no husband or children of her own. Friends showed up to find out what had happened. No one came with meals or other offers of help. It was a sudden, unexpected death, and the first rumors on the telephone lines included a hint of foul play. People came from the sense of shock and bewilderment. "What happened?" was all that could be heard. Within a couple of hours, the police were so swamped with friends, they were shooing them away.
If Cardinal Bernadin were friends with the victim, I would not find it at all unusual that he would have showed up at the scene.
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