So where do both groups go to collect on your wager?
Oh is everything over?
Has the parish been declared righteous and vindicated?
Has the priest been declared guilty and disgraced?
That's not the sense I get from the article.
And I must say that some of the stories circulating on various grapevines that I'm in touch with paint quite an amusing picture of a couple of the "ladies" (ahem!) of the parish. Maybe you're one of them!
So my money is still on Fr. Stravinskas, and it ain't over till it's over.
It will be interesting to see where both Father Stravinskas and the parish are about a year from now.
I'm sure he'll be heartbroken to leave a vibrant ethnic parish, filled with loving and congenial Christians, in the thriving heart of Omaha - after having clawed his way up over the long line of talented and articulate and orthodox priests who were just begging to be made pastor there!
My guess is that he'll be flourishing somewhere and the parish will be a part-time mission, hatching, matching and dispatching nostalgic folks who come back when they feel like it, and serviced minimally by a priest who saw even a dead-end parish full of bitter nasties in the armpit of Omaha as at least better than having to go back to the old country.