Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: al_c
The DMN has had it out for our local bishop (Charles Grahmann) for some time now. He may not be the model bishop, but the DMN has not been completely honest in its stories on him.

Well, al, I have to vehemently disagree with you.

Grahmann showed a level of insensitivity during the Rudy Kos trial I don't think I've ever observed in a churchman. He allowed Msgr. Robert Rehkemper to go on television and figure out a way to blame the young men for their own abuse, then he waited over a week before asking for Rehkemper's retirement for such ill-considered statements.

Wick Allison, publisher of D Magazine, and a group of other Catholic laymen met with Grahmann, who said he would step down after the trial.

Well, of course he never stepped down, and his people say he never made such a promise.

Grahmann also treated his coadjutor, Joseph Galante, very shabbily. He resented Rome appointing him, rarely talked to him, and let him know in no uncertain terms that he would not leave until he reached retirement age. That's why Galante's in New Jersey, with his own diocese.

The last straw was the pathetic manner in which he treated Fr. Weinberger at Blessed Sacrament, when he unceremoniously and suddenly transferred him, after Weinberger had built up Blessed Sacrament from near bankruptcy.

Grahmann is not only NOT a model bishop, he's a detriment to the Church of Dallas.

202 posted on 06/17/2004 1:56:47 PM PDT by sinkspur (There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 198 | View Replies ]


To: sinkspur
Grahmann is not only NOT a model bishop, he's a detriment to the Church of Dallas.

I agree, but the DMN needs to be truthful. They weren't and have even admitted it.

214 posted on 06/17/2004 2:21:10 PM PDT by al_c
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 202 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson