Waiting for Godot to Leave

So you want to be the Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, do you?  (See Bad Bishops: Same Old Spin - Different Day ). Submit your resume and answer the question below. Given the following scenario ... A priest under your control and care admits to having homosexual or bisexual desires.  This priest likes to wrestle with 14-year-old boys.  Let me repeat that: this priest likes to wrestle with 14-year-old boys. This priest admits that while wrestling with a 14-year-old boy, he grabbed his genitals, on two different occasions.  The second time he did so, the boy became enraged and refused to talk to the priest the rest of the day, at an event for the boy's family. The priest is indicted, tried and convicted on a charge of aggravated sexual conduct.   The conviction is overturned on a technicality.  The appellate court orders a retrial. To avoid a retrial, you strike a deal with prosecutors, agreeing to remove said priest from any ministry...

There is a pattern and it's a sick and strange one. Over the months, I have written at length about Kansas City Bishop Finn's dreadful handling of a sex abuse case in his diocese, and have taken quite a bit of heat from the True Believers, who swallow uncritically the cult-like notion that criticizing a bishop who endangers children is the equivalent of hating Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church.  (If you really want to have fun, read the whole series here ). Archbishop of Newark, John J. Myers Now we have Archbishop Myers in New Jersey and sex abuser Fr. Michael Fugee.  The case is so much like the Finn case that it's weird.  Frank Weathers and Mark Shea  have articles on the case, in which they link to local New Jersey reports, which themselves link to the original source documents at the heart of the matter, including this one , which apparently nobody wants to read. I won't go into details, since if you're interested you can find the details at this l...