Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Thursday, February 05, 2009

A canon lawyer

comments on the Fr. Maciel flap:

The Maciel meltdown and the future of the Legion

Interesting quotation:

"But everything that came from Maciel must be chucked. Absolutely everything. Starting fresh means starting from scratch. If that sounds like an 'impossible' solution, well, I can only say, I find it 'impossible' that the Legion has landed itself in such a massive and unprecedented debacle as this one in the first place."
Alas, if they are to retain any credibility, this might be the only option...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am tempted to say that these not very surprising revelations speak volumes to the spiritual and psychological health and maturity of the whole enterprise.

I know some of these people, too - or I did. Good people. But their association with this outfit didn't seem to be doing them any good.

James said...

Yes, that's been my experience with my friends as well. Good people, with good hearts, but...