[Dumb_Ox]

``They are trying to get me out of the way,'' Fessio said. ``Why else would they exile me? I am highly educated. I'm in the prime of my life. I have so much more to contribute than to minister to the sick.''

This sounds very unlike Fr. Fessio; wasn't he far more obedient and humble in a personal statement? Did a lazy reporter misquote him?

[BlessedBeGod]

This sounds very unlike Fr. Fessio; wasn't he far more obedient and humble in a personal statement? Did a lazy reporter misquote him?

I thought exactly the same thing. I suspect so, or at the very least, paraphrased him in a sure-to-provoke-the-Jesuits manner.

[jrherreid]

I don't know. I could ask him. I know he said that he gave some "very direct" quotes to the person who was interviewing him, but you never know how it will sound on paper. I've never heard him say something of that tone yet myself.