The imprisoned former Jesuit priest and sex offender Donald McGuire has leukemia. A close friend of McGuire dislosed [sic] his diagnosis to the Dallas Blog on Sunday after the priest called his residence on Saturday night. McGuire made the heavily-restricted and closely-monitored one-and-a-half minute phone call from a federal pentientiary [sic] in Springfield, Mo, which can be [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Mass transit misunderstanding
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Bruso is a 67 year-old Vietnam veteran, who apparently has some history of mental illness. While riding the bus in Oakland, he was talking to someone about getting his shoes shined for his mother’s funeral and a black man named Michael—whose last name is unknown—managed to get [...]
Lock the grid!
You hear a lot about gridlock. Bad, right? In fact, gridlock in Washington is good, since it will stop the assault of big government until the end of the year, when Congress could be overturned by independents, Tea Partiers, Republicans and probably some Democrats, as well. It gives us (U.S.) time. Thank you, Larry Kudlow. [...]
Trip down academic lane: Boccacio vs. Chaucer vs. church
At Dominican U in RF last night, Robert Hanning from Columbia U. on confession in the middle ages. Title led me to expect a socio-cultural explication but he was about close reading of Bocaccio and Chaucer. I found the former heavy-handed in his slashing attack on church practice, producing cartoon characters — opera boffo? — none [...]
Opus pokus
Yesterday an editorial about Opus Dei hosting lib RC (“heterodox”) Cokie Roberts at its DC bookstore led to cancellation of said talk-diva. But old-world defensiveness delayed things: The Washington Times called the Catholic Information Center on deadline Tuesday seeking comment and asking if the Cokie Roberts event had been cancelled, but we were repeatedly sent [...]
Bi-Dem, bi-Republican, buy partisan
Reporters were barred from a meeting of the full Illinois senate this morning, so that “bipartisanship” might be achieved, explained Oak Park’s Don Harmon, an assistant senate majority leader and Democratic committeeman. Harmon said the meeting was closed solely to avoid “political posturing” on the issues of the state’s finances and budget deficit. “There was [...]
Punches thrown at Wheeling Jesuit
Black eye here for immediate past acting/interim president at Wheeling Jesuit, or at least a smudge or at least a potential smudge: [Catherine] Smith claims she discovered federal grant funds were being misused, including the classification of direct and indirect costs, direct payment of salaries without proper time and effort certification and payment of rent [...]
Why clergy sex abuse is news
Sex Offender Information has dozens of news stories offered as a service to the community to heighten awareness about Sex Offenders. Hopefully, this site will raise the level of precaution necessary to reduce the number violations to women and children, and likewise, reduce the number of offenders. Not surprisingly, it picked up the Press TV account of [...]
German Jesuits and abuse of boys
More on the German Jesuit abuse business: * From Iran-based PressTV, Germany’s heinous sexual abuse scandal, which has cast shadow over the country’s Jesuit-run institutions, deepens with the likelihood of over 100 victims in one of the schools. . . . . Some 50 students have come forward with allegation of abuse, but the Berlin [...]
Trib on Sunday vs. Sun-Times
Chi Trib on Sunday turns its page one over to features. Eds. want you to cuddle up with them over your coffee and rolls. Come into our (and maybe your) comfort zone, they say. So we have this: Delivering hope Lauren has a rare genetic disease. On Friday, she welcomed a new sister whose cord [...]
