BosArchdiocese pays for Cardinal Law's secretary in Rome . . .

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Report: Archdiocese picks up tab for Law's secretary (in Rome)

Boston Globe, August 31, 2005

BOSTON --The Archdiocese of Boston continues to pay one of Cardinal Bernard Law's close friends to study church law and serve as Law's secretary in Rome, a published report said Wednesday.

The Boston Herald reported that Monsignor Paul B. McInerny is now a member of Law's staff at St. Mary Major Basilica, where Law was appointed archpriest after leaving Boston.

Law resigned as archbishop of Boston in December 2002 over his role in the clergy sex abuse crisis. A spokesman for Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley downplayed McInerny's appointment.

"I would only deduce nothing more than monsignor's desire to resume his studies in Rome and the fact that he has worked with the cardinal previously," O'Malley spokesman Terrence Donilon said of why McInerny is still on the payroll.

The news did not sit well with parishioners who are opposing O'Malley's efforts to close 80 parishes as part of a restructuring.

"Why, when we have a shortage of priests, are we exporting a monsignor to serve a man who resigned from this archdiocese in disgrace, and doing it at our own expense?" Peter Borre, a member of the Council of Parishes, told the Herald.

McInerny was Law's secretary from 1991 to 2001, when Law appointed him director of Boston Catholic Television.

. . . more at . . . http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/31/report_archdiocese_picks_up_tab_for_laws_secretary?mode=PF

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[marew]

1. And that type of thing is only one reason why I ...

am no longer Catholic. The arrogance of the Catholic Church and many other churches also (Pat Robertson?) is why I will never participate in organized religion again!

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4. I second that !

When are people going to get it that they really have very little say in financial matters of any Archdiocese

You give up your right to questioning when you walk through their doors

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2. So the Globe's idea of investigative journalism

is to quote the Herald?

:wtf:

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3. Better late than never? eh! . . . n/t