[Slyfox]

I hope your loyalties are well-placed.

When the media began covering sexual abuse among priests, I cautioned on this very forum that it would not take very much for this thing to somehow affect innocent priests. This is one such priest. He is being tainted by the scandals.

He is the type of priest who a hundred years ago, a bishop would have counted on to develop parishes in the middle of nowhere. And he would've accepted the job joyfully. I can't tell you how devastating this is for him and our parish. His face is being dragged though the mud. And the liberals are clicking their collective heels over it.

If this priest was not the man I know him to be, if he were guilty of abuse, the entire parish would have run him out on his ear. We wouldn't have waited for a lay woman in the chancery to make the final decision.

[sinkspur]

His face is being dragged though the mud.

Bierschenk is not, of course, guilty of abuse, nor has anyone implied that.

He is, however, guilty of telling Bishop Galante that certain people had background checks done on them when, in fact, they had not.

Is lying to the bishop sufficient for getting a transfer?

He's going to the fastest growing parish in the diocese, St. Michael's in McKinney. Not exactly a slug assignment.

[Domestic Church]

"When the media began covering sexual abuse among priests, I cautioned on this very forum that it would not take very much for this thing to somehow affect innocent priests. This is one such priest. He is being tainted by the scandals."

Yes, we must keep in mind innocence until proven guilt but this is a hallmark of the left...to use force under this sort of public pressure to advance their agenda...and this parish obviously, as the cushiest, is a pearl that the big cheese wants... to reward someone else. It doesn't surprise me and I expect to see more machinations. More smelly socks of Gramsci!