By the way, the habit of naming Church connected buildings after living men and women has always struck me as an invitation for just this type of disaster. Sycophancy and hubris are ever a volatile combination.
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Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Here in Cincinnati, we have a street named Pete Rose Way. I thought it a bad idea at the time. A couple years and a gambling scandal later…. we now have a street named after a former baseball player who is barred from the game for life. Nice.
Exactly.
Then-Bishop Wuerl pulled the wool over lots of eyes. He gave the appearance of being somewhat doctrinaire while he was in charge here in Pittsburgh. The truth is that he was a schmoozer and a politician. Back in 2004 he was all for giving John Kerry Communion. Kerry is married to John Heinz’ widow and she inherited a lot of wealth from Heinz, including not a few homes. Otherwise, Kerry would not have set a foot in Pittsburgh.
While in Washington, he came down hard on a priest who withheld Communion at a funeral Mass. The decedent’s daughter is a notorious lesbian who lives her life rejecting the Church. For enforcing Canon 915, Wuerl punished the priest.
Wuerl built up a reputation of being tough on abusive priests. The Pittsburgh media never went after him – Rick Santorum got far worse treatment. Turns out it was all a sham.
I want Allegheny County to investigate Wuerl’s authorized payoffs and if necessary take him back to Pittsburgh in an orange jumpsuit and leg irons.
Yeah. And I don’t like naming naval vessels after still-living politicians, either. There’s something cringe-worthy about having a USS George H.W. Bush and a USS Jimmy Carter. Frankly, I don’t think either merits a ship even posthumously.