From today's Belleville News-Democrat:
Braxton was chided in December by the board that administers a diocesan fund intended to help programs for children and adults, or "Future Full of Hope."
The board of this fund, whose money was raised locally, passed a motion criticizing Braxton for approving the expenditure of $10,100 last year to buy a wood conference table and chairs for the Chancery.
Has this guy ever even read the Gospels?
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What I enjoy about your blog is its blatant expression of OCD when you get to certain topics like the good bishop. Wow, I could envision you as one hell of a whale fisherperson--get your harpoon into one and never let go. Now that brings to mind all kinds of religious images of fish, fisher's of women and men, bishops and other hierarchy being servants of the servants.
Of course I am on the same page as you are. Beauty is one thing. Misappropriation of funds for pomp is such a different matter. I would like to attend one of the Holding-Forth meetings. I wonder if he would answer this question about life in the Belleville Diocese: "Why is the Diocesan Finance Committee sworn to secrecy, actually made to take an oath? Whom exactly does the secrecy protect?" Then I'd like passage and verse of Canon Law on the appointment of bishops, or could that be more tradition? And if it is Canon Law, buddy, where does it tie to Scripture?
Love the cat and the Mary story, by the way. Those little pieces of everyday holiness cheer me.
Has this guy ever even read the Gospels?
Perhaps he's taking his cue from the evangelicals and only paying attention to Leviticus?
Hey, it occurred to me, maybe our archdiocese could do with a little auditing of its own? I'm a disenfranchised flock member and know for a fact that I'm not alone! :-)
No, I jest, and would never undertake something like that lightly, particularly because an audit that comes up empty can just solidify someone's position, so I'd only want to do it if I was sure and have no such knowledge.
But still, it makes one think one may not be completely powerless after all. At least, not if you're on a finance committee. ;-)
Lisa: could be. Pick and choose and lose the message.
Alex: our bishop is unlikely to break any rules. Infuriatingly correct I believe is his motto (wonder what that translates as in Latin). I could be proven wrong, but I have a feeling he is a letter of the canon law guy.
cheryl: I'm not really sure how much canon law is attached to anything but canon law. But I'm no expert.
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