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...even from their regional diocese. In 1997, for instance, a group of Dominican nuns founded the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist convent in Ann Arbor, Mich., which has expanded to include four local schools and two in Honduras. Sisters of Mary is incorporated and run by a lay board of directors. Its financial affairs are directed by a Virginia-based private investment group that primarily focuses its efforts on sustaining small nonprofit organizations. "You have to protect the future, and that's what the parishes and the schools are trying to do now," says Bernard Dobranski, dean...
...knew that the three-week layoff would be a problem,” Walsh said. “We just couldn’t lay off [Herce’s] breaking ball...
...laypeople, that already exist in many dioceses. Most Americans, underwhelmed by the clergy's self-policing, will welcome this. But the message sent by the troubled Stokes, who stands accused of attempted murder after confessing to shooting Blackwell three times, is this: If you do set up lay boards, for God's sake, listen to them. Clerics and laypeople alike are also praying that the shooting--along with the apparent suicide last week of the Rev. Alfred J. Bietighofer, a Bridgeport, Conn., priest accused of sex abuse--foreshadows no trend...
This shocked the diocese's nine-person lay review panel. It wrote Baltimore's William Cardinal Keeler that "the return of Father Blackwell--even under protective constraints--constituted an unacceptable risk. All parish ministry positions...potentially provide access to children." Says P. McEvoy Cromwell, still the board's chairman: "It's the only case that we saw fit to write a letter...
...conventional and too rational. We got comfortable, over the years, with the old-fashioned balance of terror. It was an irrational game, but it was being played (we dearly hoped) by rational human beings. The whole black joke about Dr. Strangelove and his war room enablers lay in the way they carried their totally reasonable calculations to deliriously irrational heights...